Example sentences of "have [verb] me do " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 2 | But n no-one has approached me to do so . |
| 3 | I had not intended to intervene again , but the Minister has invited me to do so . |
| 4 | The D O E has authorized me to do so , but not to vote . |
| 5 | God has created me to do Him some definite service . |
| 6 | It 's the great work God has chosen me to do ! |
| 7 | The trouble was , although they 'd got me to do it — maybe because they knew it would save them money , or maybe because you ca n't get that kind of work done by your usual process shop — I did n't know how to do colour separations . |
| 8 | at the moment , and I think I would be some people would not have let me do that , I think , in the past |
| 9 | ‘ Otherwise ’ , she says , ‘ they would n't have let me do it . |
| 10 | ‘ Editorial ’ , she notes , ‘ did n't regard it as important , otherwise they would n't have let me do it . ’ |
| 11 | You may have caught me doing this some of you may have have noticed that I try to force meself not to and it 's something to remember . |
| 12 | After all , something must have made me do it , pointless and unjustified as it seemed now ; perhaps if I went over it all again carefully , I could find out that the truth did n't condemn me out of hand . |
| 13 | ‘ What would you have had me do , so ? ’ |
| 14 | When there was Theda behaving like a cat on a hot bakestone , what would you have had me do ? ’ |
| 15 | Except call in the Bow Street Runners , although your mama would even have had me do that , she was so distraught . ’ |
| 16 | If they 'd known it , if they 'd wanted to , they could have got me to do anything in those minutes . |
| 17 | I felt that this was what Leslie would have wanted me to do , for he always cared greatly about the welfare of his men . |
| 18 | ‘ I only hope I did everything Sally would have wanted me to do . |
| 19 | She helped me as well and when I saw you were ill I did for you what she would have wanted me to do . ’ |
| 20 | My sister , who has always been better off than us , has suggested that I should go abroad with her this year , and says I have no excuse because I have the money and that is what our mother would have wanted me to do with it . |
| 21 | He would really have liked me to do medicine , but I showed no interest in biology , which seemed to me to be too descriptive and not sufficiently fundamental . |
| 22 | My father had taught me to do a proper somersault . |
| 23 | he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more |
| 24 | But you 've seen me doing my homework , have n't you ? |
| 25 | ‘ Oh shit ! ’ he said loudly and then , quietly : ‘ Look what you 've made me do . ’ |
| 26 | someone accuses you of embarrassing/boring/upsetting them ( ‘ Now see what you 've made me do . ’ ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Now look what you 've made me do ! ’ she exclaimed agitatedly , then gasped in surprise when Leo got lazily to his feet , grasped both her elbows and lifted her out of the way . |
| 28 | ‘ Now look what you 've made me do ! ’ she screeched . |
| 29 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 30 | ‘ She would often come and have an afternoon cup of tea with me and then pick my brain as to what BA had asked me to do that morning . |