Example sentences of "[verb] i [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Do n't want me to go over yet . |
| 2 | do you want me to sit here then ? |
| 3 | They 'll say well why did this cheque do so and so and why did this do so and so and like he said well when you 're talking about forty eight pound an hour you do n't want me poking round there trying to sort out the tax man |
| 4 | I am a British citizen but the Home Office do n't want me to stay on here in spite of that . |
| 5 | ‘ I know you did n't want me to come here tonight , but there is an enchanted magician in that box and I promised him that I would get him to you so that you could change him back . |
| 6 | Do you want me to come round there so you can read |
| 7 | One day my mum rang up and said she did n't want me to come home again and that I should go to Social Services because she was sick and tired of all the bother and everything . |
| 8 | Because I 'd done two prison sentences they obviously expected me to go back again . |
| 9 | ‘ My father would make me stand up straight and sing the national anthem four times . |
| 10 | ‘ Michael could make me laugh very easily , ’ said Cossins . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't make me wait too long , that 's all . ’ |
| 12 | Eliot saw the point , and asked me to sit down forthwith and draft a synopsis . |
| 13 | The organization which you asked me to set up now exists , at least in embryo . |
| 14 | ‘ Your friends asked me to measure how far you have come . |
| 15 | ‘ He did n't mention you until he asked me to come up here with him . ’ |
| 16 | Margaret was nearly out of her mind when she asked me to come out here to look for you , but that 's all in the past now . |
| 17 | said Richard he said , I do n't know how you do it in London he said , if they ever asked me to come down here he said I would die . |
| 18 | From the audience 's applause it was obvious that most of them agreed , which led me to reflect yet again how this general attitude — exemplified by the average audience for the BBC 's Question Time — has become almost the most familiar political stance of our time . |
| 19 | But something happened the next day which led me to think rather more seriously about what she 'd said . |
| 20 | Sheepishly I fed the other meter , too , and slouched in to see my Alexander Technique teacher , who 's helping me to stand up straight . |
| 21 | I tried an abortive term at Durham University Drama Department and that made me realise even more that I wanted the real thing ; by then I had , in any case , worked the AIM stint and I did n't need theory ; I wanted practice . |
| 22 | Wilma finished the session by cantering into four foot fences and popping over them as if they were no bigger than our two foot nine ones — which made me realise how far we have to go . |
| 23 | That made me realise how much we depend on the prison officers and the fantastic security systems that have been built up . |
| 24 | Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings . |
| 25 | ‘ Gosh , that made me feel so much better — being told the whole world is in recession ! ’ |
| 26 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 27 | All this made me feel very much better and I immediately wrote my name up on the wall . |
| 28 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |
| 29 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 30 | That bit made me think even then . |