Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] i [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You better send me to a tutorial college before I 'm too old . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better drop me at the hospital . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ MY GRANDADDY … would gently nudge me off the sidewalk if a white person ever walked close by . ’ |
| 4 | and you will only have me as a stranger |
| 5 | I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . " |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd better take me to the station , then . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | He might be my best friend but he will treat me the same as any other player and will only pick me for a Test if I am bowling well . |
| 9 | It will not cover me for the hearing . |
| 10 | This , of course , did not affect me at the time ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | do you not want me in the house . |
| 13 | Do not treat me like an idiot . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He did not see me behind the curtain . |
| 16 | I 'm beginning to think the fans will soon see me as a bit of a jinx . |
| 17 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |
| 18 | And you might just see me in the background of one of the shots . |
| 19 | " Then mark this , Master Harry : if you wo n't take Sam here on at fishing , you 'll not have me as a wife . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He could not hear me above the din of the crowd . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact . |
| 25 | But she did not tell me about the food , or the cold , or the unkind teachers . |
| 26 | ‘ And I 'd be grateful if you 'd just tell me without the need to shake it out of you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I said the money would not change me as a person and it has n't , ’ she said . |
| 28 | If you can just get me into the house without your mother seeing … ’ |
| 29 | He would not let me off the hook until I had confessed that I could no longer work with my boss . |
| 30 | Unfortunately though , my nose will not let me off the hook and I am forced to leave it . |