Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see i well you , you better give me ten pound or I 'll thump you ! |
| 2 | It 'll only take me five minutes . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll only take me ten minutes … |
| 4 | I ca n't think why you have to constantly provoke me this way . ’ |
| 5 | And er the chap that tended her was er a locum , he were only a young chap , and er he says , Oh oh I 'm sorry , he says , I 'd better get me old man to come , he said I do n't suppose I 'll ever see another of these in my career . |
| 6 | You 'd better ask me some questions I think . |
| 7 | It has been seven years that life does not bring me any joy and being totally blasé , I have decided to put an end to those viragos . |
| 8 | I was up ‘ til midnight making the gekhakte chicken liver and roasting the turkey for the sandwiches and doing the potato salad , so you 'd better not give me any nonsense about your latest low-fat diet , Rebecca , or you either , Rainbow , though a little slimming routine might not be such a bad thing for you , except today 's a special occasion , so just tuck in . |
| 9 | If you could just give me those descriptions again to refresh my memory ? ’ |
| 10 | Do not forget me dear comrade . |
| 11 | I do n't see how you can fucking tell me barefaced lies like that ! |
| 12 | aha , that 's , so I did , cos this week well maybe on a diet I 'll , I 'll just get salad stuff and , you know when you , I 'll just get the mince and er shops that shops that and I 'll just get me frozen stuff at the , you know , just at the |
| 13 | Cathy did not cause me any trouble at first . |
| 14 | She did not ask me foolish questions such as — ‘ How do you propose to go about it ? ’ but instead said with easy grace , reaching into a capacious velvet bag , handing me a card : |
| 15 | Lucy leaned back with an air of satisfaction , then dimpled a grin at Virginia , adding apologetically , ‘ Could you possibly pour me another cup of tea ? |
| 16 | ‘ Paintbox can still carry me all day , ’ Artemis replied . |
| 17 | Suppose I 'm an industrialist listening to this programme , and I 've been very interested in what you 've been saying , and I feel that I 've got a problem that the University could possibly give me some advice on . |
| 18 | Do n't ever tell me that Love 's dimpled pander does n't earn his pesetas . |
| 19 | As a patient , I would like to think that the presence of a doctor 's name on the list would also offer me some sort of guarantee that he or she would not subject me to unnecessary or unjustifiably harmful treatment — whether that treatment be labelled alternative or mainstream , labels that serve only to confuse the issue . |
| 20 | You did n't really give me much chance — ’ |
| 21 | Denis , who watched my part of the show every night , would often give me odd notes on inflections he 'd have preferred done another way or phrasing he thought I could improve on . |
| 22 | In awareness of everything relevant to the issue ( = everything which would spontaneously move me one way or the other ) , I find myself moved towards X , overlooking something relevant I find myself moved towards Y. In which direction shall I let myself be moved ? |
| 23 | ‘ You could n't lend me some money , Sam ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been so unnaturally virtuous lately that you can surely grant me two kisses in one day ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Lady Lavinia , I beg of you , do n't make me any gifts ! |
| 26 | To realise that a crippled leg does n't make me some sort of oddity . |
| 27 | ‘ You did n't hurt me that day , ’ she said softly , her voice breathless with the pounding of her heart . |
| 28 | look at some the points , I 've heard , I 've been heckled yesterday do n't heckle me this week the section of level funding . |
| 29 | That wo n't do me any harm , for my position is assured ; but you are just beginning your career and it will help you a great deal . |
| 30 | I was at a stage where I was used to getting something like cannabis or whatever and , with none of that being around , I thought a bit of this wo n't do me any harm and it just took off from there . |