Example sentences of "[prep] me [conj] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Takes a dozen a year off me if I can find them for him . |
| 2 | He 's been shooting off his mouth about me and I 'll close it for him . |
| 3 | He 's been shooting off his mouth about me and I will close it for him ’ Lennox Lewis DONALD MACLEOD Lennox Lewis : ‘ The only fear I know inside the ring is the fear of losing . |
| 4 | Oi think of a project for me that I can do for the next seven weeks . |
| 5 | It would be more convenient for me if I could collect them on Friday 10 May in the afternoon , say at 3.30 p.m. or later rather than at 11.30 a.m . |
| 6 | In Chester one shop had one copy left and would save it for me if I could get there that afternoon . |
| 7 | It seems a bit funny for me cos I 'd have thought the kitchen was at the back so then you 'd have your dining room then . |
| 8 | ‘ I know it sounds absurd , but please do it for me or I might go out of my mind again , and really smash the living daylights out of him ! ’ |
| 9 | Please pray for me as I 'll need all the support I can get . |
| 10 | Come to work for me and I 'll forget about the money you owe me . ’ |
| 11 | It went : ‘ Dear citizens , vote for me and I 'll give you houses . |
| 12 | Now what I want you to do is ask yourself do n't discuss it just write down for me and I 'll go round the table . |
| 13 | I 'll never forget them for what they did for me and I 'll miss them all terribly , ’ she added . |
| 14 | ‘ You two wait here for me and I 'll join you in a minute or two , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Karen had done her bit for me and I would have been more than happy to reciprocate . |
| 16 | ‘ I was training at Leeds yesterday morning and Mr Wilkinson came and said that Blackburn were in for me and I would have to go . |
| 17 | There is no one here who cares for me or will look out for me and I must shift for myself in everything which is not easy now I am big with child and not well as I was with my first-born . |
| 18 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |
| 19 | We are elected by the public to do a job and we should n't be ashamed of the amount of money that we 're paid for it , and what I would say is , that no manifesto in May 's election said we were going to come here and vote for more money for members , nobody put on their leaflets , vote for me and I will raise members allowances by five percent in the coming year , I did n't and I wo n't support that , and you will argue , perhaps some of you that that 's not really what we 're doing , but it look 's like it , does n't it ? |
| 20 | So , in the meantime , I 'll just see how dreadful a time I can have , so that everyone feels sorry for me and I can avoid taking responsibility for my life ! ’ |
| 21 | Should I express a taste for wine he would order half a bottle , or sometimes say outright that it was bad for me and I should drink lemonade . |
| 22 | They ran after me but I could run much faster without the wedding dress . |
| 23 | The double meaning , when it struck me , forced a gasp of half-hysterical laughter out of me before I could control myself ; I clamped a hand over my mouth . |
| 24 | With ninety-nine persons out of a hundred , I would have known it was a bluff ; but he was different , and a nervousness had hold of me before I could resist it . |
| 25 | The search had taken it out of me and I must have dozed off . |
| 26 | ‘ The money aspect at Leeds is nothing to do with me but I could tell Mr Wilkinson was very sorry to see me go . |
| 27 | It was a perpetual anxiety with me that I should turn up at school wearing a dress that had been sold to that same shop by one of my fellow-pupils . |
| 28 | Play straight with me or I 'll destroy you . |
| 29 | Erm , can you , can you just bear with me and I 'll go through these ? |
| 30 | Come up with me and I 'll sort them out . ’ |