Example sentences of "had [verb] me [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was that why Benjamin had let me go ? |
| 2 | he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more |
| 3 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 4 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 5 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 6 | Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike . |
| 7 | It was an hour later that they came back and by then the Jewish family had let me know exactly what was happening in Germany , and my game had become rather more serious . |
| 8 | Half the racing world had seen me pick up Nolan and knew I could defend myself . |
| 9 | Then , a long-standing commitment had seen me jet off abroad … to disaster . |
| 10 | Once Nour had made me laugh , but then I had laughed — like the nuns — more from happiness than mirth . |
| 11 | There were no bugs anywhere else on my body ; what on earth had made me think … ? |
| 12 | I had wanted to be a nun before Nour had made me love him with his golden hair and his golden face and his golden eyes . |
| 13 | Nicola had made me go and see if he was okay and I said yes he was , because I 'd seen his eye move and I left him there . |
| 14 | Did she not realize just how awful it had made me feel ? |
| 15 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 16 | My mother had intended no lewdness , but the connotations of her remark had made me feel a greater , more immediate sense of defilement than that which I already experienced . |
| 17 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 18 | Everything Suzanna had made me feel was alive again , magnified a hundred times . |
| 19 | That break had made me realise I was n't in control of my career . |
| 20 | For Bridgnorth had made me resolve that I would never more go among a people that had been hardened in unprofitableness under an awakening ministry … |
| 21 | The way Simon 's triumphantly smug statements of impending fatherhood and marriage with you had made me suffer . ’ |
| 22 | The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong . |
| 23 | It was not the beauty alone that had made me draw in my breath . |
| 24 | And I suppose it was instinct that had made me hang on to my thermometer ; the delicate tube was still in my hand . |
| 25 | This she had made me promise when I was nine and she continued to insist that my refusal to live my life her way was selfishness and rank ingratitude . |
| 26 | My previous experiences had made me wonder if white policemen did n't get a kick out of black policemen investigating black citizens . |
| 27 | Visits to sports grounds in London and Birmingham had made me realize just how many second generation black kids were following the likes of Hope and Cunningham and channelling their efforts into sport . |
| 28 | His remark , delivered , in a weary , satirical voice , had made me notice at once how young he was , though I would have noticed soon enough , I suppose , even if he had not made it . |
| 29 | Eva could be snobby , that was obvious , but if I saw something , or heard a piece of music , or visited a place , I would n't be content until Eva had made me see it in a certain way . |
| 30 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |