Example sentences of "i [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt those whom we so recently persuaded to seek their bread elsewhere are hungry because they are idle , vicious , and ill-conditioned and think it easier to rob such innocent and harmless passers-by as I than to toil in the fields . ’ |
| 2 | They were trying more to come one place ahead of me than to win a medal . |
| 3 | But he warned : ‘ There is no greater challenge in rugby for me than to play against England before my own people . ’ |
| 4 | Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ He does n't tell me whether to go to meet my friends . |
| 6 | I put the old electric fire on in the shed , not so much to warm me as to keep the highly hygroscopic mixture from absorbing moisture out of a damp air . |