Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] i [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’
2 ‘ MY GRANDADDY … would gently nudge me off the sidewalk if a white person ever walked close by . ’
3 ‘ You 'd better take me to the station , then .
4 ‘ I think they would both probably only tell me after the event about having sex for the first time but as long as I have helped prepare them they wo n't do anything silly .
5 It will not cover me for the hearing .
6 This , of course , did not affect me at the time !
7 But it will happen … not quite yet but at the point where he will no longer hinder me with the pretence that he would have me stay .
8 do you not want me in the house .
9 She could not convince me at the time that anything bad could happen , now that I had finally ‘ solved ’ my eating problems , and for a short time I felt jubilant , relieved and ecstatic .
10 He did not see me behind the curtain .
11 ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won .
12 And you might just see me in the background of one of the shots .
13 The doctors are appalled by the press , everybody is appalled ; the nurse is freaking out and saying she will not take me to the operating theatre because they will take my picture and harass me ; she is terrified somebody is going to hit her , so in the end my lawyer wheels me because nobody else dares .
14 He could not hear me above the din of the crowd .
15 The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative .
16 Most of the reinforcements could not inform me of the health of Colonel Vaughan , but they all had vivid recollections of the most unusual weather conditions in the Highlands , and at the moment regarded their situation here in Normandy as an improvement on Achnacarry .
17 He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact .
18 But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers .
19 ‘ And I 'd be grateful if you 'd just tell me without the need to shake it out of you . ’
20 If you can just get me into the house without your mother seeing … ’
21 He would not let me off the hook until I had confessed that I could no longer work with my boss .
22 Unfortunately though , my nose will not let me off the hook and I am forced to leave it .
23 And he had begged my mother not to ever put me in the bank .
24 Bloody ballbag 'll probably phone me in the morning or something .
25 What would really put me on the spot , and how will I cope with it ?
26 You do n't want me in the harness room , do you .
27 Please do n't throw me on the floor !
28 Fortunately they did n't knock me on the head or anything which they could have done , could n't they ?
29 Ca n't hang me from the yard-arm , though .
30 I would n't trust me on the golf club scene .
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