Example sentences of "the [noun] and [verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’ |
| 3 | Go on I tell you what why do n't you flip it over and start on the other side , even though it says this side done , this is an old tape from a seismograph and er we were afraid to use it in our work but I think the sound 's alright on it , you flip it over and where it says this side down , put that side up and use the other half of the tape and let me hear your comments back . |
| 4 | A London grandmother was particularly troublesome because of her drinking sprees , but her granddaughter was expected to clean her front doorsteps every Saturday : ‘ the old bugger used to sit at the window and watch me clean 'em . |
| 5 | Suddenly he cut me short and took me round the room and made me look at things . |
| 6 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 7 | Eventually , after about a week , her little head would pop up over the hill and watch me put out her food as I whistled , but she would n't come down for it until she felt the coast was clear . |
| 8 | Returning to my first meeting with Vincent , Arthur Cheyney naturally became my hero , especially when he took me on a trip from Ipswich to Parkeston Quay , which completely sold me on the job and made me resolve to move heaven and earth to get on a cutter crew as soon as possible . |
| 9 | Come over to the lamp and let me see . ’ |
| 10 | The wasted life and the wasted love that comes to me in the night and makes me cry out in pain . ’ |
| 11 | By thus consenting they form one body politic and it is implied in the contract that the majority have the right to conclude for the rest and let me quote for when any number of men have by the consent of every individual made a community they have thereby made that community one body with a power to act as one body which is only by the will and determination of the majority it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way a single body ca n't move in two opposite directions simultaneously . |
| 12 | I ca n't find a bit that Give me the pencil and let me show you . |
| 13 | PAMELA : [ unwillingly ] I 'll get undressed if you lock the door and let me have the keys in my own hand . |
| 14 | If you held the cup and let me get hold of handle I 'd have been alright . |
| 15 | Would you please read through the report and let me have your written comments . |
| 16 | I should be grateful if you would look into the matter and let me know the outcome . |
| 17 | Stop the film and watch me perform , then . |
| 18 | ‘ If I use my own money to buy a plough , will you supply the horses and let me spend two or three days a week hiring out to those with new lands ? |
| 19 | But get out of the way and let me turn him in if you 're not goin' to lead him . ’ |
| 20 | I ask him to come to the bathroom and help me tend my hand . |
| 21 | I decide on a couple of small changes from my original sketches that I feel will improve the design and feel I want . |
| 22 | I decide on a couple of small changes from my original sketches that I feel will improve the design and feel I want . |
| 23 | ‘ Sit near the fire and let me bandage your arm properly . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I wonder if you 'd care to come up to the stable at the house and help me box a pair of geldings of mine ? ’ he was inquiring . |
| 25 | They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair . |