Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream . |
| 2 | Finally he got so used to me calling that he asked me to come down and give them a hand fixing it up . |
| 3 | That he wished me to feel . |
| 4 | ‘ The less you respond to him the more he tries to get to you — I know I can be a bit intense so it 's really good that he taught me to have fun at work and loosen up . ’ |
| 5 | I reminded myself that he paid me to teach Adèle , nothing more , and that no other relationship could exist between us . |
| 6 | But to do him justice , the Prime Minister never gave me any impression that he wanted me to succeed him … . |
| 7 | I do n't know whether it was that he wanted me to see my ‘ virtue ’ triumph over his ‘ vice ’ , or something subtler , that sometimes losing is winning . |
| 8 | Dad always said that he wanted me to seize all the opportunities that he had missed . |
| 9 | I had the strange impression that he wanted me to believe he was death ; that at any moment the leathery old skin and the eyes would fall , and I should find myself the guest of a skeleton . |
| 10 | He brought out a list of thirteen Arab properties that he wanted me to buy and then resell to the Jews . |
| 11 | He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House . |
| 12 | For Friend I would — if I only knew what it was that he wants me to do or be . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | My dad did n't like to beat me , so he made me join him . ’ |
| 15 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 16 | He ca n't cuddle me any more and tell me everything 's going to be all right , so he hits me to show he 's still the boss . |
| 17 | When God comes and he asks me to give something , whether it 's my finance , whether it 's my time , whether it 's my , my abilities , whether it 's , even my life itself for him , he only asks because he has already done it . |
| 18 | ‘ The specialist thought negatively , and he advised me to finish . |
| 19 | And he taught me to fly like a bird , wo oh oh ! |
| 20 | And he counselled me to take note of the sea . |
| 21 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 22 | He must have seen you through the window and he kissed me to punish me . |
| 23 | I told the guard at the reception desk in the dark , grim entrance why I had come and he told me to wait . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 25 | And I finally went back to my G P on the seventh day which was a Saturday in the morning , and he told me to carry on taking the drug . |
| 26 | Yes , and he told me to take a spoonful |
| 27 | Yes , and he told me to take a spoonful |
| 28 | MR K. Bailey , of Shipley , West Yorkshire , had music running through his head when he sent me a ‘ well done ’ letter , for he attached a verse he 'd composed especially to mark my 40th anniversary and he told me to sing his words to an old song named Marjie … |
| 29 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I do as I 'm told , and he told me to include you in this job . ’ |