Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 2 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 3 | You are forced to ask : Do I stop here or do I go on through ? |
| 4 | Other people would hate that , it 's too restricting and er er and again it is , if you think about it , because if you 've got a , a regular date and you 're retired and something nice and exciting comes up , and that 's right in the middle of your , it bashes into your regular date , so then you have to say do I go or do I do or , or do n't I ? |
| 5 | Now do you come quietly or do I use force ? ’ |
| 6 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 7 | I began to feel myself being pulled further and further under the water , I screamed and swore but nobody seemed to hear or believe me and then my head went under and all I remember is a feeling of despair as I squeezed the tree trunk only to find that it simply crumbled in my hands . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll meet you secretly , if you promise not to watch or follow me , ’ said Nancy . |
| 9 | ‘ Clare did n't see or hear me coming . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure the manager knows that if I keep playing the way I am then he 's either going to have to let me go or put me in . ’ |
| 12 | The only people who can hurt or compliment me are my friends |
| 13 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 14 | In the meantime , I want you all to try and build me a decent-sized castle , right ? ’ |
| 15 | For ten days I spent all my spare time in a question-and-answer session till the experience started to confuse and hurt me , also — much to my horror — defile me . |
| 16 | Explaining that she was due to meet her INLA boss Dominic ‘ Mad Dog ’ McGlinchey in the Republic that November day , she told detectives : ‘ You may find this hard to believe and think I 'm hard and callous but if Dominic had asked me to do the same again , I would have done it . ’ |
| 17 | I mean you 've got to stop and think I ca n't carry any more . |
| 18 | Oh if only the ground would proverbially open and swallow me . |
| 19 | I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’ |
| 20 | Normally I 'd get up and make me and Marie a cup of coffee , but there ai n't no point now , so I stay in bed . |
| 21 | Oh dear , he thought , she 's going to cry and make me look a bastard in front of all the doctors and nurses . |
| 22 | ‘ Would you like me to dig too , or will you stop and make me a cup of coffee ? ’ |
| 23 | Do n't try and make me out to be some kind of embittered nut compensating for an unsatisfactory sex-life . ’ |
| 24 | They always do that , the saucy wenches , they like to tease and make me beg for them to come back . |
| 25 | Oh well of course that 's making me have a parched throat you know , so you 're gon na have to ma , go and make me a cup of tea ! |
| 26 | ‘ Now , if you set up a decent practice , somewhere in Belgravia , instead of this … slum , you could come and treat me . |
| 27 | The women would look up and congratulate me and encourage me to ‘ go on , go on , you can , you can ’ . |
| 28 | Erm I 've been off work in excess of five years now er add my income has been very very small and whatever award I get will never go ahead and compensate me or my wife for what I 've been through . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps I can shoot two or three , ’ I said to myself , ‘ but then they will kill and eat me . ’ |
| 30 | Erm , okay the bogie man would come and eat me up . |