Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him . |
| 2 | He may make me feel desolate , make my spirits sink , hide my future from me … still … |
| 3 | I suggested that he should let me write a version of the press telegram in a more discreet way , trying to keep the reporter 's expectations and hopes . |
| 4 | He has warned me he 'll make me suffer for it . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , he 'll make me look a hundred and three , ’ said Lucy . |
| 6 | If Mr Jackson sees me all grown up , then maybe he 'll let me stay here . |
| 7 | He might make me come back to London , and I could n't bear it . |
| 8 | it 'll be funny Mr knows about it , he might let me record the lessons that 'll be quite good |
| 9 | And one day Uncle Edouard said he might let me work on the Aston Martin . |
| 10 | It was the only way he could let me know what had happened to him . |
| 11 | At any moment he could let me fall , and we were at least three hundred metres above the ground . |
| 12 | I walked — in amazing Cecil B de Mille film type downpour yesterday for tea with a young lawyer son of one of John 's contemporaries at Gordonstoun , so that he could help me finalise the leaflet for a seminar on 14th January in respect of INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY , which many think is akin to copyright and so on but it embraces much more than that nowadays , especially in respect of computers , TV and sound usage , collaboration in respect of research and development projects which eat investments budgets and so on . |
| 13 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 14 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 15 | And I remembered he 'd let me go out in the garden . |
| 16 | Oh , if only he 'd let me go with him ! ’ |
| 17 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 18 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 19 | Even when he was n't there he 'd let me stay on . |
| 20 | And do you think he 'd let me have the children ? |
| 21 | As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up . |
| 22 | ‘ I looked down and thought he 'd let me fall too . ’ |
| 23 | But er then there was erm a desk we had big stools and poor old was trying desperately to get me to add correctly you see , and he 'd he 'd let me add and then he 'd always find there was a mistake in it and he 'd try to tell me why . |
| 24 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 25 | Tom 's very superstitious and he used to make me carry three tees in my pocket . |
| 26 | ‘ He was incredibly good company ; he used to make me laugh all the time . |
| 27 | He would make me look at pictures and then reproduce them with coloured pencils , or else ask me to rotate a figure mentally a certain number of degrees around a given perpendicular before attempting to redraw it . |
| 28 | From the time that I was about ten , I used to look forward to Mr. Golding 's visits , for sometimes on never-to-be-forgotten occasions he would let me go down into the cellar with him . |
| 29 | Perhaps he would let me go there . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If I had a bit more pay , he would let me come to you , you would have to keep me in grub if I was an apprentice would n't you ? |