Example sentences of "[vb infin] i [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 30 19 DO N'T YOU WANT ME Felix |
| 2 | Work which can earn me money in my spare time . |
| 3 | Why do n't you make me sons ? ’ he says . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , when Fox made the preposterous statement that ‘ This is simply shocking , they might as well make me professor of Poetry , ’ Lewis responded , ‘ Well , we will . ’ |
| 5 | Oh do n't make me Pat ! |
| 6 | In the latest movie , Carry On Columbus , a female member of the cast screams : ‘ The sharks would n't eat me whole ? ’ |
| 7 | That you may grant me grace . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'll think me catty , but you asked for it . |
| 9 | Well , now that I 'm too big for me boots , d' you think me legs 'll sprout ? ’ |
| 10 | D' you really think me legs are pretty ? ’ |
| 11 | You ca n't fool me Lorna ! |
| 12 | They did n't even buy me lunch — we went out to lunch , but we did n't get any . ’ |
| 13 | I would n't let me buy me lunch , I said , and I meant it . |
| 14 | Ca n't Buy Me Love . |
| 15 | The week 's singles listing shows the Fabs occupying the complete Top Five , with ‘ Twist And Shout ’ at Number One , followed by ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ ( 2 ) , ‘ She Loves You ’ ( 3 ) , ‘ I Want To Hold Your Hand ’ ( 4 ) and ‘ Please , Please Me ’ ( 5 ) . |
| 16 | He opened and closed the back door , taking care to slam it , and returned to the hall , whistling a Beatles ' song , ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ . |
| 17 | there is a tendency to standardize different time-scales — but in fact different musical types , and sometimes different pieces within a type , may sell at different rates over different time-spans ; thus the Beatles ' ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ sold a million copies in a week while Ken Dodd 's ‘ Tears ’ took five months to do the same ( Harker 1980 : 98–9 ) . |
| 18 | They strode along bravely , and the tune they played was ‘ Ca n't Buy Me Love ’ . |
| 19 | Martin plays a great set , we encore , duetting on Teenage Kicks , Blank Generation and Ca n't Buy Me Love , and I 'm lapsing into rockspeak : Great vibe . |
| 20 | Of course I knew that Neil was in an extremely well-paid job — even so , Jim was on a reasonable salary and he did n't buy me gifts like that — not even at Christmas . |
| 21 | Oh you , you do n't need me driving license do ya ? |
| 22 | You , you did promise me Mr Chairman , that I could just ask a quick question . |
| 23 | There 's some fellas after me right who want me blood serious you know they do n't let 'em catch me Vic please . |
| 24 | Oh I 'll do n't know I pastry , I ca n't do that , I can do the rest but I ca n't make the pastry . |
| 25 | And when you 've lain there , and thought of Adolf or whatever good girls do these days , you can watch me dress in my fine underwear , all pristine silk and nicely sticky balls . |
| 26 | You can come and watch me paint the window frames . ’ |
| 27 | Anyone frightened of being too sick in public can send me email : - ) |
| 28 | ‘ Luke , ’ she said abruptly , ‘ if I moved in with you , would you send me roses ? |
| 29 | In response to his anxiety , perhaps he will send me quotations of what he said during the period of the last Labour Government when 30,980 jobs were lost in the mining industry in Wales . |
| 30 | But you did send me postcards . |