Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 3 | ‘ He is not in the least like any of Henrietta 's children , but when I see him laugh and run he makes me think of them , being nearer the little one 's age than my Penini . |
| 4 | I 've gone to the nuns and begged them to let me have a child , but they say ‘ You are a prostitute . |
| 5 | Excitedly I told him what had happened and begged him to let me have the harmonium . |
| 6 | I bent my knees a little to put on the shoulder-strap and left him watching me move back onto the road . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't until I met you , but loving you made me want to know how twins could be so different . |