Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be most grateful if you would telephone and speak to either Heidi or me to let me know if and when this would be convenient for you . |
| 2 | But , because she knew nothing of the business , I insisted that she let me handle things . |
| 3 | She was so exhausted that she let me help her without protesting , and finally we sat down together near the fire with our cups of tea . |
| 4 | I 'll give you my home telephone number , and if you do n't find them until after I 've returned , and you 're not successful in persuading Suzie to go back to England , all I ask is that you let me know where I can contact her . |
| 5 | If there is still no news in the morning , I recommend that you let me supply a professional bodyguard and review your personal security . ’ |
| 6 | And not the least wonderful thing is that you let me follow my star , and encourage me and help me ; so many women would n't . |
| 7 | In a way , she was greater than you let me know because she was approachable too . ’ |
| 8 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 9 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 10 | So I usually leave a er sheet of paper on the table and if you 're , if you 're interested in getting a free brochure what I shall do at the end of the course is to send this off er together with one of the cards that they let me have and er in due time you 'll get a free Saga magazine . |
| 11 | Once they made me jump , another couple of them , a couple of years ago . |
| 12 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 13 | I waited to see her face tense as if it was an airtight balloon on a stick ; never mind that it made me choke somewhere in my chest . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ When we play like that it makes me wonder why we are in the wrong half of the table . |
| 15 | The magazine folded and we all got drunk on Bulgarian wine and I made a speech about going out to penetrate the government and cut the arteries of the police state right at its heart — you need Bulgarian wine to say things like that it makes me faint to think of it now . |
| 16 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 17 | My dad did n't like to beat me , so he made me join him . ’ |
| 18 | I just change the format a little bit here and there so it makes me write differently . |
| 19 | And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ? |
| 20 | ‘ If ye let me go now , ’ Anton said , ‘ I wo n't tell anybody . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My God , you bloody swine and you made me carry … ’ |
| 22 | Tracey said you just tell Carla and you let me hear anyone say anything . |
| 23 | She sort of flinches but I dab real soft and she lets me finish . |
| 24 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 25 | All through the pregnancy I felt special , then suddenly all my friends did n't want to know me , only one friend , Karen , and she made me feel worse , as she was so glamorous and I was sitting there all fat . |
| 26 | And she made me feel about two inches high |
| 27 | I sat in the back with Rayleen ( could n't you have guessed ? ) and she made me put my right hand in her lap while she ran her fingertips over most of the rest of my body looking for other injuries . |
| 28 | Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house . |
| 29 | And she makes me laugh all the time — laughter is tremendously bonding , it 's the greatest thing . |
| 30 | Sh and she really , and she makes me laugh when she said , talking to someone and when they start working again she turns round to the next person at the other side of her ! |