Example sentences of "[vb base] me [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trust me to choose the one man that would make it impossible . |
| 2 | ‘ Trust me to pick the most expensive . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Trust me to get a cat like you , ’ said Mildred fondly , stroking it with one hand and unclasping its claws with the other . |
| 4 | ‘ Okay , blue-eyes , ’ I drawled , even though they were green , ‘ be difficult and make me twist the information from you until you scream for my kisses … ’ |
| 5 | erm make me explain the difference between irony and sarcasm . |
| 6 | Er , make me feel an idiot ! |
| 7 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 8 | ‘ If you make me leave the table , Hughie , I shall go straight down into the kitchen . |
| 9 | ‘ People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot ’ |
| 10 | ‘ At the moment , ’ she says , ‘ the people in Liverpool make me laugh a lot . ’ |
| 11 | People in Liverpool make me laugh a lot |
| 12 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 14 | If ever Ari and Bernard had a tiff , Laura would take Ari on one side , explain all Bernard 's good points and the difficulties he had encountered and then ‘ make me write a letter saying how I respected him . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ All these changes , changes of circumstances and the change of the season , make me fear a change of rhythm and atmosphere . |
| 16 | I would agree that a hypnotist could not , for example , make me attack an innocent person . |
| 17 | Or are you going to start getting even less money than you do now , and want me to take a cut in the housekeeping ? |
| 18 | ‘ And you want me to do the flying ? ’ |
| 19 | And the they want me to do the . |
| 20 | You want me to do the gravy ? |
| 21 | If he was as surprised as she at what amounted to an invitation to share her meal , then he did not show it , but said merely , ‘ Want me to lay the table ? ’ |
| 22 | " You want me to put an e in Davis . |
| 23 | ‘ You sussed that I am in with Carmichael , and you want me to put the drop on him . ’ |
| 24 | want me to put the mop on ? |
| 25 | You want me to hold the teddy ? |
| 26 | You want me to live a middle-class life . " |
| 27 | ‘ Want me to have a look round , sir ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It sounds as if you want me to have a contract drawn up for signature by the parties of the first part . ’ |
| 29 | Bring along questions to do with revision , bring along planned essays that you 've written if you want me to have a look at them . |
| 30 | And you want me to tell the warren that young — er — young — er — your brother here has got a hunch and we must all go trapesing across country to goodness knows where and risk the consequences , eh ? |