Example sentences of "i [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ he said slowly , ‘ you could put your arms around my neck , press your soft body into me and let me know you accept my offering . ’ |
| 3 | How can I make him see his colleagues will look down on him if he says in the same old rut ? |
| 4 | ‘ How can I make you believe me ? ’ |
| 5 | I made them show me their identification … |
| 6 | He 's talking about the time I approached them at Leeds Poly and asked them why their logo featured women 's breasts rather than the species-ist cow 's udders I made them change it to . |
| 7 | The orchestra was not playing it in time , so I made them rehearse it at a slower tempo . |
| 8 | I made him undo my hands , he was like someone in a trance , and then I undressed him and I undressed myself . |
| 9 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 10 | How I made him betray what he believed ! ’ |
| 11 | why I made him tell you . |
| 12 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 13 | I made him take me by giving myself to him like a slave . |
| 14 | I made him take me round and round , ten or twelve times . |
| 15 | I made him let me walk in the cellar this morning . |
| 16 | As soon as he came in I made him let me look at his head , and I dabbed some Dettol on it . |
| 17 | But I made him put his coat on . |
| 18 | No I took the sheets off , I made him put his own sheets on . |
| 19 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 20 | Meursault : If I made you suck my cock , this would be political . |
| 21 | You wanted to abandon it by the side of the road , but I made you push it on , with myself taking short spells of pushing . |
| 22 | ‘ He gets mad when Gary does n't sleep , he says it 's my fault , he says I make him do it — and — ’ She stopped again . |
| 23 | they just want to start it , cos once they start getting through that 's when they start getting wanting decent , wanting to eat more and I mean I make them clean theirs thoroughly , they 're really good at doing them actually as well |
| 24 | ‘ I make you dislike me ? ’ he questioned , and seemed to be so genuinely distressed at that thought that she felt duty-bound to quickly reassure him . |
| 25 | I helped him fold his sheets . |
| 26 | Terry , whose gentleness of heart so melted my own that I helped him sell his newspapers outside factories , on picket lines and outside East End tube stations at seven-thirty in the morning , was encouraging . |
| 27 | So I let them think it and played the game . ’ |
| 28 | I did n't want to but I was frightened they would think it was true , so I let them do it . |
| 29 | I was jealous and confused , so I let them twist me up — distort everything . |
| 30 | ‘ I said I was subject to them , not that I let them rule me ! ’ |