Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] i [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 32 | ‘ If I 'd been bad he made me copy the notices and labels in cases . |
| 33 | Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it . |
| 34 | You can either draw it model it made me draw the last one I 'll model it this time , it 's good fun ! |
| 35 | It made me recall the list of supposed super-powers of Ardakkeans . |
| 36 | Then one of the others came and he helped me rehang the curtain and move the damaged screen . ’ |
| 37 | He helped me shift the tea-chests |
| 38 | Bolinger ( 1974 : 75 ) presents the difference between ( 15a ) and ( 15b ) below as one of " immediate " vs " mediate " assistance : ( 15a ) He helped me climb the stairs by propping me up with his shoulder ( He climbed with me ) . |
| 39 | yes last week he helped me turn the garage out he took all the rubbish left over from the tip down to the tip . |
| 40 | This morning you mysteriously slide me a note telling me to ask you out and now you claim I 'm not really a journalist even though my credentials were thoroughly checked out by your plant manager before he let me near the place . |
| 41 | That was the first time he let me see the extent of the bitterness that was poisoning him . |
| 42 | Harvey looked doubtful , but he let me take the gun from him . |
| 43 | ‘ Why do you think he let me take the firm over ? |
| 44 | And sometimes he lets me pull the strings . |
| 45 | Like my father , when he was , when my mother first started going with him he used to smoke cigarettes quite hea heavily erm and er when he had a cold or something like that he 'd say , oh I must have a fag it helps me bring the phlegm up so erm in some ways they 're almost perceived as having a like a cur curative er |
| 46 | ‘ It helps me forget the office for a while . |