Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] me [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This list has , believe it or not , really got me in the mood for venturing back to see United — tommorrow should see me travelling up the M1 if I can get the transport arranged — and hopefully I 'll be seeing quite a few games throughout the season . |
| 2 | I I 'm I say you must excuse me going on at such a pace but I 've got A I 've got another meeting quite shortly and B you 've got some little mo I think M Michael 's looking to take over . |
| 3 | I ai n't got no money , but I do n't reckon they 'll mind me sitting there and just looking out the window . |
| 4 | Something that 'll keep me going in photography anyway . |
| 5 | They might stop me having visitors if they think I reduce them to tears . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought the owner might appreciate me taking the time and trouble to approach them in person , ’ he bit out . |
| 7 | ‘ Really , Aunt , you 'll have me blushing ! ’ |
| 8 | that 'll save me phoning up to say can I have a script please |
| 9 | It 'll save me digging . ’ |
| 10 | Maybe give you a wee lesson so it 'll save me going on a course so you could bring in all could n't you ? |
| 11 | Well if I get this , if I start this job it 'll start me saving again . |
| 12 | ‘ If you 'll forgive me saying so , Prime Minister , ’ Mark replied cautiously , ‘ successive British Governments and the trade unions have n't exactly helped . ’ |
| 13 | If you 'll forgive me saying so , it does n't quite seem like your kind of club . ’ |
| 14 | There is still a cult following for the Leger and the Normale , and though I sympathise with it , it 's among the D-series fanatics that you 'll find me swapping gasps . |
| 15 | You 'll find me banging on about how great the ‘ Back In Denim ’ LP is elsewhere in this issue so you can drop most of the theories there . |
| 16 | I think , he may be careless , someone may see me lying around . |
| 17 | SOME of you may remember me appealing for help to form a national organisation to write to prisoners on death row in the Caribbean . |
| 18 | That 'd suit me seeing that 's black more than navy blue . |
| 19 | I am sure you would be amused if you could see me struggling to do such a basic ‘ computer thing ’ as merely use it as a word processor ! |
| 20 | Sometimes she 'd keep me waiting there for over an hour while she scanned the surroundings through 180 degrees , over and over again . |
| 21 | I do n't think you 'd like me doing that Alex ? |
| 22 | I reassured myself that nothing could stop me keeping in touch with the women on a voluntary basis , provided they wished to remain friends . |
| 23 | He said that if I did n't do it he 'd stop me having baths or going out in the cellar . |
| 24 | Although I could n't wait to leave school once and for all so I could join Granpa permanently , if I ever played truant for as much as an hour he would n't take me to watch West Ham on Saturday afternoon or , worse , he 'd stop me selling on the barrow in the morning . |
| 25 | If they needed a punishment to hurt me , they 'd stop me playing . |
| 26 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 27 | For two hours he 'd have me swimming after a brush held in front of my nose , while he set the pace up and down the side of the baths . |
| 28 | And he had visitors and so they could hear me singing . |
| 29 | Now la last There 's two people down here last week , they said they could hear me breathing |
| 30 | I 'd buy grams whenever I could as it 'd save me going over to Liverpool to score . |