Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the best way of going forward ? — Ideas from within I hear you say ! |
| 2 | Later on I heard him go with them to the dorm . |
| 3 | Only I saw him sigh , for Lili and Robert were looking not at him but at the walls , and he found me too negligible to bother to disguise his ennui . |
| 4 | Aye , perhaps I saw him like , cos I was upstairs like . |
| 5 | I heard her say to him mum Auntie Alice this morning , she love her cat so I heard her say to him come on then , let's see what mummy 's got for you this morning . |
| 6 | To get me into the car so I let her come . |
| 7 | and it was in quite a big space , I could off got in behind him and then changed if I 'd reversed in but when I saw this other chap sat in his car and then he indicated he wanted to pull out , so I let him go |
| 8 | It seemed to please him so I let him get on with it . |
| 9 | So I let them think it and played the game . ’ |
| 10 | So I let them bully me into taking them round . |
| 11 | Sort of erm working on a farm for two days then going to the college erm that , so I do it like that . |
| 12 | So I do I get a percentage ? |
| 13 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |
| 14 | As soon as he came in I made him let me look at his head , and I dabbed some Dettol on it . |
| 15 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 16 | When we shamble inside I see we have a new dragon . |
| 17 | Bunny handed over a fiver and as I walked away I heard him whisper to Rayleen . |
| 18 | He pushed again quite hard and as I turned away I heard him snigger and say , ‘ You have to kick 'em , you know . ’ |
| 19 | Already I feel I belong . |
| 20 | Usually I let him go on the . |
| 21 | Knew directly I saw him put her in a wheel-chair that we 'd a cardiac on our hands . |
| 22 | You paint a picture like that Mars now I saw you do one time , empty with loneliness . |
| 23 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 24 | I used to have my hair shaved , now I let it grow — people react to me in very different ways when I have hair and when I do n't ’ . |
| 25 | Now I see him scramble for the fallen gun . |
| 26 | And then of course we had the mower and then we got a binder and now I see they 've er a harvester . |
| 27 | A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye . |
| 28 | but today I did you know when she said to me though , what would you do ? |
| 29 | Well I let her carry on singing . |
| 30 | Oh well I made him worry |