Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] me [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said , I did me shoulder in and it was really bad and me mam got some dikes off me gran who had arthritis and I felt great . |
| 2 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 3 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 4 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 5 | Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house . |
| 6 | She made me put on my suit and collar and tie . |
| 7 | How will you make me get out of your way when you know deep down that that 's the last thing you really want me to do ? ’ |
| 8 | Stuck in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside with hundreds of noisy incomprehensible children and colleagues who make me feel about as comfortable as a walk in the rain . |
| 9 | Then she helped me put on my white satin dress , after which I pulled on my shoes . |
| 10 | There was n't much else she could do without attracting attention , but I definitely expected a bit of the old argy-bargy before she let me get down to business . |
| 11 | ‘ You let me go on believing that you were one of their crew , ’ she persisted heatedly , provoked by his bland unconcern . |
| 12 | Laura , you let me throw up all over the alley , all over Bill 's cab . |
| 13 | ‘ I need to know about Piper , ’ he said , ‘ and I need you to help me find out . |
| 14 | I would like you to let , I would like you to let me go down to the fair . |
| 15 | She watched me go in to the doctor . |
| 16 | ‘ Why wo n't you let me give up ? ’ |
| 17 | " But how could you let me go on thinking you were dead ? |
| 18 | ‘ Please , Ace , wo n't you let me come in ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why do n't you let me take over the accounts ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Now get out of sight until you see me come back . |
| 21 | Miss can you help me set up a microscope please ? |
| 22 | Could you help me find out if such an instrument is available in the UK ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was nice of them to let me join in , they were very patient , but you could see they were itching for a good game and I 'm just hopeless . |
| 25 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 26 | Just something to help me get back in his good books ! |
| 27 | They made me move in to live with them as something they called their au-pair girl , mostly to exercise two new Great Dane puppies . |
| 28 | It was n't until they made me squat down and then taped my wrists to my ankles and stuck me in a large sack that I accepted that it was n't going to be a truck , but a car-boot move . |
| 29 | They make me come out in spots . |
| 30 | In return for free accommodation and a lot of my attention , they helped me get up and go to bed . |