Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 2 | Once they made me jump , another couple of them , a couple of years ago . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | My dad did n't like to beat me , so he made me join him . ’ |
| 5 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 6 | As I think he might not let me have my half-hour in midmorning if he let me go out earlier , I do n't insist . ) |
| 7 | I said I would fast unless he let me come upstairs . |
| 8 | It was only semi-erotic because she made me wear a condom . |
| 9 | Because she made me laugh . |
| 10 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 11 | But of course I think about him in a much different way as the years go by , and now I always smile when I think of him , because he made me laugh . |
| 12 | I ENJOYED it most because it made me laugh so much . |
| 13 | Since it helped me jump even higher , I took to pole-vaulting right away . ’ |
| 14 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 15 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |
| 16 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 17 | Well , it 's a lot better than when you saw me last time ! |
| 18 | ‘ Bounced out as soon as she heard me call you and came scrabbling up the slope . |
| 19 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 20 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 21 | He came after me , but he stopped when he saw me go inside ( as I instinctively knew he would — the only safe place from him was down here ) . |
| 22 | He was obviously embarrassed at his lack of preparedness and when he saw me glance involuntarily at my watch he grew more agitated , pulling his pipe from his mouth and putting it back in again , tucking the hammer under his arm , rummaging in a large box of matches . |
| 23 | ‘ When he let me pass , he then slipstreamed and overtook me again . |
| 24 | ‘ But the manager Allan Clarke was only keeping his word when he let me go to Portsmouth . |
| 25 | At first , so Coleridge improbably claimed , Walsh thought he had been found out : ‘ for he heard me talk of one Spy Nozy , which he was inclined to interpret of himself , and of a remarkable feature belonging to him ’ . |
| 26 | Many a wet day was passed in this way for he let me help him , or did I hinder ? |