Example sentences of "i [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but he kept me on to get me through Christmas you know things like that . |
| 2 | ‘ The Gruagach sent me here , ’ began Caspar , and stopped , and then went on with more assurance , ‘ they sent me along to see if you can provide a — well , I do n't know what you 'd call it really . |
| 3 | Then someone dragged me along to learn meditation , which I found did most of the things advertised for it — you feel more focused and it reduces the interminable mental chatter that stops you getting to sleep at night . |
| 4 | The nicest thing about my dad is that he often takes me along to work with him . |
| 5 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 6 | ‘ So after the fire , Himmelbrau and Strick called me in to see whether I could do something to re-establish their client files — thirty years of legal practice up in smoke . |
| 7 | A fish and chip shop owner called me in to deal with the lower half of a long-skirted ancestor which often glided through her kitchen . |
| 8 | He was late because ‘ the police pulled me in to form part of an identity parade . ’ |
| 9 | But he sent me in to ask you something . |
| 10 | Money , of course , was scarce , and to help pay the bills she began to take in lodgers , moving me in to share her bedroom and letting my room and the attic . |
| 11 | It took several miles on the bus and a lot of questions still to be answered outside his front door before he invited me in to meet his mother . |
| 12 | Listen , I 'm going to tell you this and you can believe it or not : Uncle Mosse had been dead about a week when they took me in to identify him . |
| 13 | and I do n't know whether she took me down to see him to see if I 'd backed down |
| 14 | Then she held the light still and drew me down to kneel beside her . |
| 15 | He maketh me down to lie . |
| 16 | ‘ Why did you bring me down to watch that ? ’ he said gruffly . |
| 17 | Let the man lift me from the car still asleep and wrapped in a tartan blanket , let him lift me and carry me up the stairs to my bed , let him gently say , ‘ we 're here ’ … let him lay me down to sleep . |
| 18 | Before you can take a bearing at all there 's something you have to do , which is what , what am I about to do ? |
| 19 | WHETHER HEROIN is at the root of this unreliability I do n't know for sure , nor am I about to proscribe the freedom — or is that stupidity — of anyone to take whatever substance they choose to take , be it alcohol , tobacco , heroin or carpet cleaner . |
| 20 | But she says I 've had but she says and she says she was the one wanted me over to sit |
| 21 | Maybe you would invite me over to testify for them . |
| 22 | Got me over to stay with him . |
| 23 | No they put me off to sleep . |
| 24 | I was such a misery that by the end of the first week Elise asked a friend to help out in the shop , and packed me off to join him . ’ |
| 25 | In an interview shortly before his death , he said , ‘ I think it was these imaginings and wonderings to music — that sort of fantasizing to music — that started me off to wish to be a choreographer . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ She marched me off to see my bank manager . |
| 27 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 28 | When he came out he took me off to water his vegetables . |
| 29 | No. 4 Commando positions were being heavily mortared when I arrived , and Jock , my friend of many years ago , took me off to find some shelter in a dug-out , giving at least some protection from the flying shrapnel . |
| 30 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |