Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a compensation scheme and the laibon wishes me to drive one of his sons fifty miles to a small town to collect the papers . |
| 2 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 3 | Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city . |
| 4 | ‘ No , no , let me answer that , Peregrine . ’ |
| 5 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 6 | Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Please , let me stay another minute or two , ’ said Melissa quietly . |
| 8 | You let me stay last year . |
| 9 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 10 | There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening . |
| 11 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 12 | do you want me to carry that |
| 13 | ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground . |
| 14 | After me phoning that , for those tickets for er |
| 15 | ‘ Let me make sure . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Let me make sure I 've got them right , ’ she said . |
| 17 | Erm , yeah just let me make sure I can get a baby sitter , it just depends what mum and dad are up to , I know they should have been out on Friday night |
| 18 | Right so let me make that clear again . |
| 19 | Let me make that absolutely clear . |
| 20 | The guiding principle for the Government , she said , was that health care should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay : ‘ Let me make one thing absolutely clear . |
| 21 | ‘ Let me make one thing clear . |
| 22 | But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship . |
| 23 | ‘ I think I am being very reasonable , and let me make one thing quite clear . |
| 24 | But , in reply , let me make two fundamental points which , I think , make the original question far from otiose and the answer to it anything but platitudinous . |
| 25 | Let me make clear that when I say the conference of 1923 , and that night in particular , constituted a turning point in my professional development , I am speaking very much in terms of my own more humble standards . |
| 26 | " I make the tree stand up , if you let me make some of them little colour things . " |
| 27 | Some Territorials who were standing near me became pensive . |
| 28 | But my father 's conversation with me became strained . |
| 29 | Or perhaps it is all that rain which makes me want more water . |
| 30 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |