Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] me [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Serve the food properly or let me do it . ’ |
| 2 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 3 | ‘ Lachlan Cattanach , ’ Farquhar said sternly one day , ‘ will you for God 's sake be either forgetting the lass , or letting me carry her away up the hill for you ? |
| 4 | If anybody has any absolutely yes I 'll be quite happy I mean to me chairman of the trust or with management committee to meet anybody if they feel that they 've got some concern they wish to discuss I 'm quite happy to do that all I can say is that nobody has actually wro wro wrote to me or rang me to say they 'd like to meet to discuss that and I 'm quite happy to do that . |
| 5 | ‘ And almost every night I 'm woken by the sound of Graham trying to scratch himself or asking me to scratch him . |
| 6 | put it together on a training session on this and they rely on you and perhaps talk through to the session and say look that when I say this sort of thing , will you be the person that demonstrates or gives me answer you know , this sort of thing . |
| 7 | You want to draft out the message , or have me do it ? ’ |
| 8 | The thing that made me feel he was more normal was this little bit of dialogue . |
| 9 | I failed the Eleven-Plus — that horrible thing and that made me feel I was n't any good . |
| 10 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 11 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 12 | And though he was never to make such almost innocent remarks again , and though Eva and Dad continued to want to make love all the time , and I caught her giggling while she did idiotic things with him , like snipping the hair in his ears and nostrils with a huge pair of scissors , there were looks that escaped all possible policing , looks that made me think he was capable only of a corrupted happiness . |
| 13 | I saw nothing that made me dislike her . |
| 14 | ‘ There was something about him that made me know he was the best revue star we had . ’ |
| 15 | It was you that made me like him . |
| 16 | Something that wants to change me … something that wants me to change it . |
| 17 | And all that let me tell you after Pisa looked so dangerous in the first eight minutes , clearly they 'd come out looking for the early goal themselves , and who was badly fouled by in the early stages and needed attention , he 's the number eight , and the number eleven , who looks as quick as any player I 've seen in ages and ages , they are the two danger men and they will need some marking . |
| 18 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 19 | The right hon. Gentleman might have been better advised to raise that matter at a meeting of the parliamentary Labour party than inviting me to answer it . |
| 20 | It 's getting rather hard to think about what it is that lets me see them as distinct individuals if all that they 're doing are |
| 21 | ‘ You invaded my privacy , do n't you think that entitles me to invade yours ? |
| 22 | Rather than let me do it . ’ |
| 23 | On a sea of evening light Páll Helgason steers his boat towards the sun , poking it between stacks and through arches , sometimes into gaps that leave me thinking I can touch the rock walls on either side . |
| 24 | Brittain is always up with the lark and it was a nice piece of work that Needle Gun did under Roberts on the Side Hill woodchip gallops early on Tuesday that makes me select him for the Laburnum Stakes . |
| 25 | His catches at Tring on flavoured maggot were extraordinary and led me to follow him . |
| 26 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 27 | He looked at me and asked me to take it . |
| 28 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 29 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 30 | " Well , she waylaid me as I was leaving after seeing your Toby , and asked me to give you a message . |