Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb infin] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 2 | But I 'm not seeing me kid and me husband walk to town in second-hand clothes . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a body of opinion over here that we 're too British , ’ adds Fruitbat , ‘ and that does make me feel like I 'm banging my head against a wall at times . |
| 4 | ‘ You did make me laugh when you fell over the broomstick . ’ |
| 5 | Because every person who comes in thinks ‘ this geezer 's gon na make me laugh because it says here he recalls Harold Lloyd , he 's a comic genius and he 's a continual delight ’ . |
| 6 | Years ago I used to do isometric exercises because they did n't make me puff and they seemed easy . |
| 7 | This made me shudder but I was brought back to my own worries when I heard Mum demand that she gave the lump of coal back . |
| 8 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 9 | She interwove the Emmaus story into her talk , mentioning words such as ‘ companioning ’ , ‘ accompanying ’ — which made me realise that we are all here to help see one another to the heavenly Jerusalem : — the word meaning a place of peace — ‘ Jerushalom ’ . |
| 10 | This incident made me realise that our careful descriptions of the relationship between dialect and Standard English might be misread , and so in the final Report I insisted that we should reiterate many times that all pupils should learn , and if necessary be explicitly taught , Standard English . |
| 11 | It also made me realise that it was stupid to waste any part of what little time we all have left in silly sulks . |
| 12 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 13 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe it was seeing the Dawsons that made me realise that you ca n't lose something you never had . ’ |
| 15 | But enquiries from two missionary friends already recruited as Kachin advisers made me realise that there would be little opportunity to influence policy and relationships . |
| 16 | This question made me realise that there must be lots of new knitters out there with electronic of Duomatic 80 machines who do not know this technique . |
| 17 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 18 | It was that inner voice that made me cringe as I lay sleepless on my lumpy mattress listening to the pogoing of the bedstead against the wall next door , where my co-tenants were pursuing their nightly quest for the elusive grail of Trish 's orgasm . |
| 19 | They wanted to get on but that made me swear if I ever got made Sergeant , I would never treat a man the way I was treated . |
| 20 | The calm , thoughtful way she acknowledged them and talked them through with me made me feel that we had taken the first step towards friendship . |
| 21 | In fact the aftermath of that fire , when so many people expressed resentment about the funding of the repairs , made me feel that they were . |
| 22 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 23 | The therapist made me feel that my obsessions were not silly or trivial and , by implication , that I was n't either . |
| 24 | He made me feel that my ideas and my interest were important to him . |
| 25 | ‘ Keith felt very , very sorry for David and he always made me feel that I was a real bastard . |
| 26 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 27 | The dryness in his voice made me feel that I was being very naive . |
| 28 | This kind of timidity always made me feel that he was incapable of any violence . |
| 29 | He made me feel like I was mad . |
| 30 | That erm , made me laugh because he said to his secretary erm you know , I I honestly do n't think your time is she is so down in the mouth . |