Example sentences of "[verb] i [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want me just to leave it ? |
| 2 | Do you want me just to catch you something first Alex ? |
| 3 | Do you prefer me then to get it all from Rosette Fournier ? ’ |
| 4 | Seconds later , he asked me urgently to bring over a large roll of cotton-wool . |
| 5 | You felt my star-sign made me somehow to blame |
| 6 | One such example is : ( 189 ) … the cry which made me suddenly to re-enter the dimension of distinctness . |
| 7 | That experience angered and frustrated me sufficiently to consider coming to this place to try to change the evil which the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was letting loose on decent families in decent communities . |
| 8 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 9 | Alistair said , ‘ And then you want me quickly to buy as many publicly held shares as possible . ’ |
| 10 | If you 're saying you 're buying the butter solely for me , then I just want me solely to eat it . |
| 11 | I even tried laying trails of cheese that led to my feet , which she scoffed up , but she did n't trust me enough to take the cheese from my hand . |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't you trust me enough to keep it between just the two of us ? ’ |
| 13 | But there was nothing around that moved me enough to go out and change things . |
| 14 | Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper . |
| 15 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 16 | And I was fortunate : no one ever stopped me either to ask me for my identity card or to see what I had in my bag . |
| 17 | I 'd have taken in lodgers only for the war , but the solicitor advised me just to close the place up for the time being . |
| 18 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 19 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 20 | I dared not tell Mamma , or she would begin to badger me again to give up my job … |
| 21 | Taste seemed irrelevant — but touch … how on earth could he expect me even to pretend to believe that what I might touch was ‘ psychic ’ ? |
| 22 | ‘ If Plummer was trying to frame you , why send me here to help you ? ’ |
| 23 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
| 24 | The council told me just to stay there the weekend . |
| 25 | I went to the doctor on the Saturday and he said it was gastroenteritis and prescribed tablets for me for it and told me just to keep up my fluids so I did n't get dehydrated . |
| 26 | He told me just to run around and do some starts , which is the way I guess most athletes begin when they join a club . |
| 27 | I , I can remember erm when we ever had women in from the country they 'd say , oh yes , y y my mother told me always to take raspberry , raspberry leaf tea . |
| 28 | She sent me to fetch two cups , and told me then to go to my own tea . |
| 29 | Their teeth and jaws can inflict such damage that an expert fisherman once told me never to put a finger in even a dead pikes ' mouth . |
| 30 | ‘ Ray told me never to lose my individuality , always to believe in what I did best . |