Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Liverpool the Principal wrote , also at the end of 1967 , that within the new polytechnic ‘ there will be complete autonomy in respect of the academic work of the Faculty of Art and nothing that has been said causes me to have any misgivings on this score . |
| 2 | Sales means you 're going to tell me you 're going to persuade me to do something I do n't want to do . |
| 3 | If you think you 're going to persuade me to retract what I said in that article , you 're a bigger — ’ |
| 4 | I think coping with distances would be my biggest problem if the authorities could ever be persuaded to allow me to live in Australia . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , you have not given me enough information about your medical condition or the drug which you were taking to enable me to say definitely whether or not you can make a claim . |
| 7 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 8 | If they are trying to use me to get something for the museum , then I shall think of something else . |
| 9 | I fear that if we are tempted to act as Opposition Members are trying to tempt me to do now , we might jeopardise the Bill 's progress . |
| 10 | Mrs Gojkovic said later : ‘ What I now want is to get a middle-of-the-range hotel to cater for the tourist trade in London … this is going to enable me to do this . ’ |
| 11 | Any time now he 's going to ask me to go roller-skating . |
| 12 | And he 's going to teach me to play squash . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps he 's going to leave me to starve . |
| 14 | She said , look let me know , how much it 's going to cost me to get rid of this , because I 've had enough ! |
| 15 | If you could get me a quote I shall see what D I Y I can do and then find out how much it 's going to cost me to buy a new |
| 16 | She 's going to ring me to confirm . ’ |
| 17 | That 's guaranteed to drive me to despair . |
| 18 | This entire charade was designed to entice me to defect ? ’ |
| 19 | Forget it , I said , For a moment I thought he was going to tell me to sling my hook . |
| 20 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |