Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you may have heard me mention already , I am involved in organising a one month summer school for 40 soviet teachers of English this July . |
| 2 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 3 | The buggers want to see me go under . |
| 4 | She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’ |
| 5 | Some pensioner constituents who come to see me ask why they are penalised and punished . |
| 6 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |
| 7 | I only wish Tata had lived to see me take up my place at Bedford College . |
| 8 | ‘ My father would make me stand up straight and sing the national anthem four times . |
| 9 | He 's just a useless teacher and he does n't make me feel really confident . ’ |
| 10 | I thought it would make me feel less helpless if I was opposed by something definite . |
| 11 | Being honest about our motivation is crucial since , at this stage , we might discover that it is not our own Dream at all , or that our motivation is somewhat dubious : ‘ It will impress my friends ’ , ‘ It will be one in the eye for my parents ’ , ‘ It will ease my sense of guilt ’ , ‘ It will make me feel more secure ’ , ‘ It will give me power over other people ’ , ‘ It will make me feel special ’ , ‘ It 's what my partner keeps suggesting I do ’ , ‘ It 's the opposite of what my partner suggests I do . ’ |
| 12 | You ca n't make me go back with you . |
| 13 | ‘ They ca n't make me go there . ’ |
| 14 | Then with greater determination , ‘ You ca n't make me stay here . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Michael could make me laugh very easily , ’ said Cossins . |
| 16 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 17 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 18 | Easy path or not , a climb of over 4,000 feet every Monday morning would certainly make me phone in with a headache . |
| 19 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 21 | He might make me come back to London , and I could n't bear it . |
| 22 | It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’ |
| 23 | How will you make me get out of your way when you know deep down that that 's the last thing you really want me to do ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't make me wait too long , that 's all . ’ |
| 25 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 26 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 27 | He wrote : ‘ Thanks for your hospitality over the past few weeks and for helping me see where I have gone wrong . ’ |
| 28 | This has been pointed out by Lind ( 1983 : 271 ) , who adduces the following examples to show that there is " no correlation between active participation and omission of to " : ( 23 ) … he said briefly , helping me climb in through the rear window . |
| 29 | Of course , there 's the question of my present contract , but I feel sure I can bribe the boss into helping me get out of it without too much hassle . ’ |
| 30 | Money made me gu out an rob |