Example sentences of "[v-ing] i [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She kept phoning me up to tell me about Crowded House tickets and that she could n't get any . |
| 2 | I can remember being asked to run the mile at school and my parents encouraging me not to stop ( try hard ) . |
| 3 | Now his hands are holding my head , holding me in , helping me not to fly away , apart , dissolve . |
| 4 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 5 | She was trusting me not to do that , putting that power in my hands . |
| 6 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 7 | When she pulled herself out of bed and went to the bathroom , instructing me not to look at the sketch , I got the chance to examine it . |
| 8 | we had a meeting earlier this week were I got huge support , indeed some were urging me not to give way at all on the Paignton amendment . |
| 9 | At one point on the next night Jordi drew me into the shadows and to my astonishment produced a vicious-looking switch-blade knife , warning me never to look at another man in his presence . |
| 10 | ‘ A week later I received a frantic letter from Valerie imploring me not to go through with it . |
| 11 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 12 | ‘ Watch him , watch him , ’ the Youngest Son would say , pulling me around to see a TV video of a lute player , or a religious song celebration with long lines of men chanting Islamic verses in a sort of mouth music with hand-clapping accompaniment . |
| 13 | Money , of course , was scarce , and to help pay the bills she began to take in lodgers , moving me in to share her bedroom and letting my room and the attic . |
| 14 | Since Frank 's departure , Tom had played cards with us more often and Terry and Bri started teaching me how to play poker . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's all , but it was — still is — badly swollen , and they insisted , quite rightly , on sending me here to have another look taken at it . |
| 16 | He grimaced , but I could see he was not unpleased , though he tried to hide it by marching me off to give his vegetables their evening watering . |
| 17 | ‘ I can remember Nick as a small boy , maybe five , begging me not to go back to London that Monday morning and to stay at home with them . |
| 18 | ‘ I shall not , ’ said Sally-Anne grandly , ‘ reproach you , Dr Neil , for rescuing me merely to ensure that I shall carry on skivvying for you . |
| 19 | You 'll probably want to talk about it without the embarrassment of having me here to listen . |
| 20 | ‘ My time was being taken up by people asking me either to find them a folly or a buyer for some extraordinary building , ’ says Gwyn . |
| 21 | ‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says . |
| 22 | At the same time , I would warn Obair * , the same as I would warn anybody setting up a scheme , to make sure that the scheme is properly run , to make sure that the scheme is n't used to take jobs away from either the domestics , the home helps or any other jobs in the health service — make sure that abuse is taken away and I certainly wish them luck in the future and I thank you for inviting me here to speak . |
| 23 | once and he was showing me how to do it , I could he hardly hit the |
| 24 | Tony 's showing me how to play knuckle-bones , I do n't know whose knuckles he 's using , he gets them from Boudicca , if we come across the Governor 's we 'll send them back . |
| 25 | And er I was showing it to chap next to me , tall chap , he took a fatherly interest in showing me how to work you know when foreman was out and er ooh he said there 's a bloody Taffy . |
| 26 | The response of the Treasury official upon receiving the nomination , according to the duke , was to ‘ put the presentation in his pocket , desiring me rather to name somebody that might be useful for my interest , for nobody knows this Achterlonie ’ . |
| 27 | Here , Mr Broadhurst broke step again , this time wheeling me around to face him . |
| 28 | Then I 'd wonder why people kept telling me not to take it and conclude that they just wanted to keep it all for themselves . |
| 29 | Hugo Brassard keeps telling me not to give up hope . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ You 're telling me not to interfere , are n't you ? ’ |