Example sentences of "i [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says : |
| 2 | Leaving me to continue cleaning up , my husband climbed the ladder into the roof space to see what the situation was there . |
| 3 | It was a modest success in its own way , enabling me to risk becoming a full-time freelance , and I shall always be grateful for that . |
| 4 | Perhaps our HCI Rep will persuade me to go sailing . |
| 5 | Any time now he 's going to ask me to go roller-skating . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't expect me to go hefting bowls of boiling water . |
| 7 | You ca n't really expect me to go fishing about underneath your bed if I do n't even know what I might find under it , now can you ? ’ |
| 8 | Why do you always force me to go chasing after you ? ’ |
| 9 | You want me to go jumping out of Dorniers again at five thousand feet in the dark like last time over Ireland and you try to hand me that kind of bollocks . ’ |
| 10 | But you did n't expect me to go rummaging around in Paula 's diary , did you ? ’ |
| 11 | " It 's just that it 's all very well to talk about his responsibility and all that — nobody thinks how awful it would be for me to go crawling to him wailing , I 'm in tro-uble ? |
| 12 | Sometimes she would ask me to go blackberrying with her or , as she would say , to open a tin of tangerines with her . |
| 13 | A range of pine furniture ready for me to paint according to your needs . |
| 14 | Then they waited patiently for me to try hitting one . |
| 15 | It was wrong of me to come running to you . |
| 16 | I asked trembling . |
| 17 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 18 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 19 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 20 | Needless to say , I found his political philosophy disagreeable and unacceptable , but as my mission was to reach agreement I avoided becoming involved in basic considerations or in any way assessing the value of white rule as against black . |
| 21 | These kinds of variations can seem very confusing , which is why I advocate taking the job slowly , one section at a time . |
| 22 | It is for these two different reasons , then , that I advocate adopting graded tests . |
| 23 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 24 | The following weekend I cemented capping stones round the top of the new pond and also round the header pools . |
| 25 | I regret dragging you back here , but I had to be certain . " |
| 26 | Now , I suppose I regret holding out on him . |
| 27 | ‘ In some ways , I regret losing my opportunity to perform this piece , but I do n't begrudge you yours . ’ |
| 28 | But Mr Tebbit told Mr Hurd : ‘ I regret having to say that I disagreed with almost everything he ( Mr Hurd ) said and agreed with almost everything the Right Hon gentleman said from the Opposition front bench . ’ |
| 29 | In this instance , I do not particularly welcome this debate , because I regret having to make these points tonight in this way . |
| 30 | I regret interrupting you . |