Example sentences of "[vb pp] me [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father had taught me to do a proper somersault . |
| 2 | You have taught me to read the fires of meaning but I am inadequate . |
| 3 | ( Bitter experience has taught me to remove the gaffer at the end of the event only by holding the wire down on the floor as you pull the tape up . |
| 4 | ‘ You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the Throne . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You could of let me have the first one |
| 7 | He picked up the receiver , and without identifying himself just said , ‘ Could n't you have let me have an hour ? |
| 8 | And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry . |
| 9 | A sentence such as ( 8 ) below could refer to the past ( How could you have expected me to know the answers to those questions which you asked me last week ? ) , the present ( Why are you asking me ? |
| 10 | ‘ As the club have never expected me to have a coaching certificate , I 've never considered it worth the effort just to get a piece of paper . |
| 11 | ‘ You would n't have caught me walking the streets in my dancing shoes . ’ |
| 12 | But the committee have approved the idea in principle and have instructed me to investigate the matter further . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The coroner 's court has instructed me to obtain a photograph of a young girl … who will never wake up again . ’ |
| 14 | I chose a man who massaged my bruised ego , made up for much of the emotional neglect I 'd suffered and made me laugh a lot . |
| 15 | He 's certainly made me laugh a few times ! |
| 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 | The sight of that blood has made me feel a whole lot better . |
| 18 | President Bush defended his administration 's cautious response , saying he had seen no facts since Tuesday which ‘ would have made me make a different decision ’ . |
| 19 | ( You 've made me make a mistake . ) |
| 20 | I started buying every issue of Tennis World after Capriati 's looks and sheer dedication in every match she has played , brought me into tennis and she has made me become an addict . |
| 21 | But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car . |
| 22 | It has made me question every aspect of my teaching , including things that I thought I was doing well ! |
| 23 | ‘ You , Aurora Jennings Blake , have made me understand a little of what addicts must have to face when they 're made to go cold turkey , ’ he said . |
| 24 | It 's made me lose a lot of self-confidence in myself |
| 25 | They 're too large , but he says he 's seen me wear the colours . |
| 26 | Oh yeah we walked past park cos he asked me if I wanted to go on swings and it led up to his back gate , well , you 've never seen me put a sigh of relief on me face , I went |
| 27 | ‘ What on earth can have possessed me to take a job like this ? |
| 28 | He put me on the committee and now they 've persuaded me to open the thing . ’ |
| 29 | It was still very early and , although the mist and drizzle should have had me feeling a little mellow , I was still in good and confident spirits from the naming ceremony . |
| 30 | He was killed in the war , but by then he had got me made a member . |