Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] i [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 2 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 3 | Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting , the ducks beautifully camouflaged , sitting tight as long as they could , then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag . |
| 4 | And er she says er the next thing was that if er , she says she heard him saying if you let me play in your back garden , this that he 's playing with , we 'll give you a sweet . |
| 5 | Well if you let me know at the meeting then I 'll . . |
| 6 | If you let me know at the meeting and . |
| 7 | Er so if you let me know about Catherine . |
| 8 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 9 | I 've got some pills but they make me feel like a rag in the mornings . |
| 10 | He did a very good job , but it made me think about what would be right for me when I died . ’ |
| 11 | I laughed at this , but it made me think of where Charlie may have inherited some of his cruelty . |
| 12 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 13 | She meant it as a compliment but it made me sound like her GP . |
| 14 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 15 | I wanted to forget him , because he makes me think of his mother . |
| 16 | The superstar guitarist , still grieving over the loss of his son who fell from a Manhattan skyscraper , says : ‘ I do n't mind talking about it because it helps me get over what happened . |
| 17 | Roy Davey , managing director of both HarperCollins Educational and Children 's divisions , ventured that ‘ I am not sure whether you see me cast in the role of partner or competitor ’ , a question clearly lingering in minds on both sides . |
| 18 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 19 | When she hears me come into the room she does n't look round or say ‘ Hello ’ . |
| 20 | Kinnock 's more realistic reply was : ‘ That 's fine , Nick , so long as you help me get to Downing Street first . ’ |
| 21 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 22 | You 're the bait for the jackal , and sooner or later he 'll come for you , and when he does I intend to be there . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ But the manager Allan Clarke was only keeping his word when he let me go to Portsmouth . |
| 24 | At first , so Coleridge improbably claimed , Walsh thought he had been found out : ‘ for he heard me talk of one Spy Nozy , which he was inclined to interpret of himself , and of a remarkable feature belonging to him ’ . |
| 25 | For he makes me feel like a light-bulb that can not switch itself off . |