Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean , you knew all along , but you let me make a fool of myself ? ’ |
| 2 | But you made me fight it , and I did . |
| 3 | ‘ Forgive me , Chieh Hsia , but you asked me to remind you of your audience with Minister Chao . ’ |
| 4 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 5 | But you remember me telling you about it . ’ |
| 6 | At least — at least — I do n't know what it is about you , Miss Abbott , but you make me want to bare my soul to you — I did have a wife once , years ago , when I was very young , but she left me , not I her , to live with someone else . |
| 7 | Everyone thinks you 're successful , but you want me to keep you . ’ |
| 8 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 9 | For instance , she never specifically said : ‘ Do n't blame your mother for everything ’ , but she made me understand that I was using my mother as an excuse for the fact that I was n't happy a lot of the time . |
| 10 | I think about phoning her mobile but she hates me doing that so I do n't . |
| 11 | I wanted to go with her to the train , but she told me to stay at home otherwise I 'd get lost on the way back . |
| 12 | ‘ They got down to forty-five-second intervals , and I asked Gabrielle if she 'd mind not giving birth until the end of the episode , but she told me to find a nurse — fast . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's a menace , but she makes me laugh . ’ |
| 14 | But she makes me laugh though . |
| 15 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 16 | I 'm not very good at it , but she makes me try even though I keep burning it . " |
| 17 | She was obviously puzzled , but she invited me to sit down , and offered me a glass of sherry . |
| 18 | No , but she wants me to bring you back for a meal . |
| 19 | ‘ She did n't want to go — but she wanted me to walk her downstairs . |
| 20 | Those sessions nearly wrecked my hearing for life , but they made me laugh so much and took up so much of my off-duty that , as time went by , sometimes , just sometimes , I was able to laugh at my one-time passion for Bill . |
| 21 | But they made me feel great , I told them , " I want to live here . " |
| 22 | During a run in a Neil Simon play , I struggled with soft lenses but they made me cry constantly — which was unfortunate , as Neil tends to expect laughs . |
| 23 | Well , I like them a lot , but they make me feel kind of young and stupid at times . ’ |
| 24 | I 've got some pills but they make me feel like a rag in the mornings . |
| 25 | But they make me die because you , you you 're a day , I mean we got this sort of letter the bailiffs were coming in because we were a day late . |
| 26 | ‘ We were from different cultures , but they kept me going through the bad times . |
| 27 | Now then part of it is they ask me You do n't have to , but they ask me to ask people to sign erm to say It 's just to say that you do n't mind your conversation being used . |
| 28 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 29 | Wickenden , as purchasing director , is naturally reticent about details , but he led me to believe that smuggling nuts out of Turkey was an important activity , and that everyone except presumably the government , was satisfied with this arrangement . |
| 30 | But he got me started ; the curiosity . ’ |