Example sentences of "[verb] i [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 And the only thing I need to ask you about is that bloody great , bloody great memo , I 've said it so I 'll say it again it 's pinned up in my old tutor 's room what do you want me to put down on the document for the record of achievement on attendance ?
2 Easy path or not , a climb of over 4,000 feet every Monday morning would certainly make me phone in with a headache .
3 She asked me to join in like a kind of guinea pig and keep a weekly budget .
4 ‘ Michael asked me to come up with a funny line for him to say on leaving the house , ’ recalled scriptwriter Raymond Allen .
5 I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service .
6 One of the factors that led me to sign up with the DIA was the idea that I might be able to do something for my friend Jerry Levin , who had been taken hostage in Beirut by Hezbollah , but as it happened he was released before I got out there .
7 I had not looked through those volumes for many years , until these recent developments led me to get down from the shelf the Devon and Cornwall volume once more .
8 It was my ex who got me fixed up with the job ; Dizzy owed him , and he owed me maintenance for Jed , and I wanted to get away from town and get involved in something where I could start to 69 respect myself again … everything kind of fitted into place .
9 This has been pointed out by Lind ( 1983 : 271 ) , who adduces the following examples to show that there is " no correlation between active participation and omission of to " : ( 23 ) … he said briefly , helping me climb in through the rear window .
10 This telephone call made me think back over the years .
11 You see , it was really my dad that made me go along with the Church , even though he did n't really involve himself .
12 Then , to me : ‘ We went to Orkney last summer , and she made me crawl in through a ghastly tunnel into some underground charnel-house .
13 Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’
14 Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black .
15 I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me .
16 ‘ Do you think I fell out of a boat ? ’
17 Yeah if they if their churning out the stock that tu tend to churn out , I mean I go along for an enquiry for a few and find they 've got thousands in stock .
18 I mean I shout up to the bathroom , I mean
19 Well we used to take it in our stride , I mean I grew up with an old Victorian house with potent fires and you had keep the fires going either wise in the winter it was bitterly cold , it was nice and cool in the summer coming out of the heat .
20 Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here .
21 ‘ Does Faye … or Dr Greene … want me to go in to the hospital ? ’
22 ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that .
23 Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time .
24 Dawn found me stretched out on the bench below the War Memorial in Glencoe Village soaking up the first warm rays of sun and waiting for the shop to open .
25 I explained the situation , after she found me jerking about on the bed one afternoon .
26 You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night .
27 Carradine helped me get out of the diner , but I did n't feel so bad .
28 ‘ The horse has a long neck , and that helped me get back in the saddle , ’ he added .
29 I expect I woke up at the wrong time .
30 And er I I as I say I moved up into the next er school .
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