Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] i [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll just finish reading this and then I 'll er go and do give me a smackerooney , look at that lovely face , a little angel , a little angel |
| 2 | The skill , once learnt , helped make me a little more popular and outgoing at school , where there was a craze on for such things . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't you dare give me a damned shopping-list . |
| 4 | ( 63 ) Two months ago , I should have scouted as mad or drunk the man who had dared tell me the like . |
| 5 | They could be paraphrased by : ( 63 – ) If anyone had dared tell me the like two months ago , I would have scouted him as mad or drunk . |
| 6 | I think the teachers did influence me a lot in their own enthusiasm for the subject ; it seemed to rub off on me , you know ; whenever they taught me something , a new concept or something , I 'd come away feeling enlightened by it , and wanting to know more , just this curiosity for more knowledge . |
| 7 | A harmless grass snake , I concluded , although I must admit that the proximity of the Reptile Centre did make me a touch more circumspect than usual as I made for the summit . |
| 8 | They did send me a cheque for £8 , which I returned as inadequate . |
| 9 | Well , I had such a lovely day , it 's so nice and sunny and warm , should have did send me a card |
| 10 | If you 'd like to meet up for a drink or something , do give me a call on the above number . |
| 11 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , you did give me a fright . |
| 13 | They did give me the name of the hospital Salome was in and the taller one told me that the accident had happened ‘ just off the M20 near Wrotham ’ , but they had no more details , they were just running errands for the Kent police . |
| 14 | Do send me an interim copy as soon as you can , even in draft or uncorrected form , so that I can all the better rack my brains for you ! |
| 15 | Sir , I thanke you , but I thynke I might the better doo it , if you did showe me the woorkinge of it . |
| 16 | Do drop me a line , Mrs Surridge , or anyone else who 's interested . |
| 17 | Your mum did tell me a few weeks ago |
| 18 | So I explained to them , I said well that 's cos you changed over and I sort of never put it across through oh she said well do n't worry I 've done it now , she said you have n't got anything to worry about now , I said well it did bother me a bit to think that I did n't think you had my payment ! |
| 19 | Then she did get me an appointment with this new clinic that was opening at the hospital , but it was too late . |
| 20 | wardens and whatever , we do n't take the double yellow lines half seriously enough , erm and I think parking generally is , is something we 're very bad at and I 'm an occasional sinner in this respect too , but it , it did strike me the other day , erm paying a fifteen pound fine for parking on a single yellow line on a Sunday afternoon but I had n't noticed a sign that said I should n't , erm paying that fifteen pound fine in other words not having paid the six pound instant fine , I remember thinking that , really there 's , there was no way of talking back , and I had in fact attempted an explanation as to why I 'd done it , and explained the reasons why I thought this really was very overlookable on the side of the law , erm I do n't suppose they paid much attention to it , I do n't imagine giving it a moment 's thought at all . |
| 21 | ‘ You do love me a little bit , do n't you , Harry ? ’ she said . |
| 22 | It did sting me a bit the first time I used it but has n't since . |
| 23 | ‘ To go there with Hereford does give me a chance to get some revenge , I suppose , but that wo n't be my priority . |
| 24 | ‘ To go there with Hereford does give me a chance to gain some revenge , I suppose , but that wo n't be my priority . |
| 25 | Just to add to what 's been said erm there , there have been some points raised er along the lines I 've mentioned and as a result of that erm it is felt that erm notification to members who are not on the application sub-committee of applications which affect their ward area could be improved and that is er I hope to be the subject of a report to the next meeting of the Application Sub-Committee , so that er matter i is something which is , which is being picked up and will be considered by that sub-committee but it does give me the opportunity to say that erm the definition of a complaint i is certainly not a precise one and I certainly would n't want members of this committee to feel that I was being complacent er as a result of there only being three complaints that we received . |
| 26 | Mind you , this does give me an unfair advantage . |
| 27 | The boats are blue , the nets are black , and the whole scene does remind me a little of the Adriatic , even if not precisely of Venice . |
| 28 | Erm no , he does help me a few things but I do all the digging for him because he ca n't bend down too much . |
| 29 | We have done some work with your offices on that , and whilst on most of your activities are n't happy with er the scale of such that it does cause me a problem , there is one particular area that we are in discussion with the Chief Executive , and your offices relating to doing work for other bodies to and the contract vehicle hire service , and er , that 's something which we will and no doubt will be brought us in the very near future . |
| 30 | Like most of you I suspect , I am totally f-ed off with Leeds United at the moment , but one subject that does cheer me a little is the young players who are our future . |