Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to stammer something about a mistake being made … that he had merely come to ask me to leave his boy alone … leave his boy alone … what a bloody liar . |
| 2 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 3 | Herman S. has just telephoned to ask me to go to the theatre with Ivy and him next Thursday — to see Samuel Beckett 's new play . |
| 4 | He 's already tried to have me arrested once — that 's how we met , believe it or not . ’ |
| 5 | He told me he was just visiting to let me know he would come for me soon , but not just yet . |
| 6 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 7 | However , members of the public and councillors still seem to expect me to know every detail about every file in the department — an impossible task for anyone ! |
| 8 | ‘ She always manages to make me feel guilty . |
| 9 | My first meeting with was e a I doubt whether he actually remembers er but it was actually on an Inter City , I do n't know whether he does remember , on an Inter City back from London erm three or four years ago when h he also tried to get me to join the Labour Party if I remember rightly . |
| 10 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 11 | Half my clients do n't even want to let me know what they 're up to . |
| 12 | He was n't particularly happy with the idea , but kindly decided to let me try after an RSPCA inspector had seen the condition of the dog , and had judged how much she weighed , so we could give the correct dosage . |
| 13 | He flatly refuses to allow me to stay here alone . ’ |
| 14 | For one thing , Rose has kindly offered to help me find a place . ’ |
| 15 | One couple who own an apartment in the south of Spain are even trying to persuade me to go there . |
| 16 | Our situation is pressing and my father has therefore decided to let me go alone . |
| 17 | You 're never going to make me sound like a human being , because people like to think I 'm Dracula 's mother but I did have a rotten time at the start and it 's only just getting better . |