Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , tell him it 's kind of him to agree to let me stay here , but I 'm turning down his invitation . ’ |
| 2 | Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ? |
| 3 | Then he tried to force me to take the damn' thing , and I had to call attention to my delicate condition . |
| 4 | He was also dubious about the interview ; he tried to persuade me to settle for interviewing Ortega 's brother , Humberto . |
| 5 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 6 | He wants to convince me to become his disciple , to go forth and encourage the world-death to come swiftly . |
| 7 | reset and that 's how I met up with bleeding Tony he came to visit me meeting a friend , it 's only me he said oh go round and see this girl I know and she was related to my best mate , it 's a complicated story and we sort of went from there really |
| 8 | I felt I had to do something , he seemed to expect me to do something " . |
| 9 | He refuses to let me have another go which I think is outrageous and tell him so . |
| 10 | He seems to want me to direct the rehearsals with him . |
| 11 | But here he had to leave me to attend to stores which were being brought on board , and some twenty minutes later I could see the place for myself . |
| 12 | He kept up this sort of thing a while longer , but I refused to be provoked and in the end he had to let me go . |
| 13 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 14 | And he wanted to help me to get under way you see but I was n't long started farming . |
| 15 | When I tried to raise some of the education issues with the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) , he refused to let me intervene . |
| 16 | ‘ His jailers were certain he intended to have me killed , or they would not have treated me thus . ’ |