Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] i [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , Ibrahim asked me to call in at Mohammed Fingari 's to get a package for him . |
| 2 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 3 | ‘ Yer Mum asked me to call in and clear away the crocks and tek the chairs outside ready ter goo back ter the mission 'all . ’ |
| 4 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 5 | Money made me gu out an rob |
| 6 | Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf . |
| 7 | Gary wants me to find out a bit more about it cos he wants a new one , another , well he wants a new one , cos we done a deal , get my bed , if we get the bedroom done |
| 8 | I had a grand day at sea , but although the tide helped me to get back the wind did n't , and I used the engine to get back into the Crouch . |
| 9 | ‘ No , David asked me to go back for coffee but I refused . ’ |
| 10 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 11 | Alejandro caught me stealing out to water them the first night . |
| 12 | Georgina wants me to tidy up the manuscript before she lets Gasset and Lode have it . |
| 13 | The kids helped me pile up the slabs and we ‘ borrowed ’ a barrow from the house-renovators next door to transport the broken humps of concrete , via some wobbly ramps , to a spoil heap up the garden . |
| 14 | Well maybe ages ago , but like you know when David told me to fuck off and die really seriously and I thought that 's nice . |
| 15 | The promptings of my mind told me to get out of computing and go to live in Shropshire on a small dairy farm making highly profitable specialist products such as goat 's milk yoghurt , sheep 's cheese and traditional butter . |
| 16 | " When these telegrams came I ran down and opened the door to the boy and I showed them to Mummy and she began very bravely , how lovely dear , and then began to cry and shut herself in her room . |
| 17 | ‘ Dustin called me to check up on some facts and I was able to shed some light on the character he played , ’ Dr O'Connor says modestly . |
| 18 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 19 | " Besides , you ought to see the luxury the department lets me live in now . |
| 20 | When we reach the pit straight again , exceeding 130 mph , Brundle tells me to listen out for the tone of screaming on the front left tyre . |
| 21 | When the tocsin sounded I lurched out with the others to see what was wrong . |
| 22 | ‘ Garret FitzGerald advised me to shut up , saying you do n't have to do everything the SDLP wants , but do n't come out and say it stinks . |
| 23 | I lumbered to the loo and then rang the hospital excitedly — the midwife told me to come in . |
| 24 | On arrival at the hairpin bend I looked over my shoulder and saw that the kakar had lowered her head , and was once more cropping the grass . |
| 25 | At their recent meeting the parish council asked me to find out whether the Ramblers ' Association is contemplating appealing against this decision . |
| 26 | Ethel found me doubled up . |
| 27 | In November nineteen eighty-six , I was elected to succeed Peter Jay as Chairman of N C V O. This year , the call of other duties compel me to step down . |
| 28 | After signing a four-year contract Jones , 27 , said : ‘ I see this as my apprenticeship towards management and supremo Sam Hammam told me to come back and look forward to that . |
| 29 | By the time I was ten , Granpa allowed me to lay out the morning wares on the barrow before going off to school for the day . |
| 30 | A curate at St Luke 's , an older man from the West Indies , almost persuaded my parents to let me go out to Codrington College in the West Indies , but my headmaster was firm against this , expressing the hope that I might get a scholarship to an English university . |