Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] i [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , Miss Everdene , you must let me say how lovely you are ! |
| 2 | He might make me come back to London , and I could n't bear it . |
| 3 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 4 | Mm , that 's what I 'll do I do n't think we 'll use the fire that much , I mean we , I , did I put it on ? |
| 5 | No , we 'll see I do n't know if I want to spend the money this year |
| 6 | ‘ He 'll see I have n't let things slide , ’ he said to Carrie , when she was helping him put the shelves straight . |
| 7 | If Mr Jackson sees me all grown up , then maybe he 'll let me stay here . |
| 8 | ‘ I might as well tell you — if only so that you 'll let me go home . ’ |
| 9 | If they 're no longer staying here , perhaps you 'll let me know where I can find them … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You might let me go just a little … |
| 11 | He 'd make me sleep with the kids , then he 'd make me come back to bed with him , in and out all night . |
| 12 | ‘ Michael could make me laugh very easily , ’ said Cossins . |
| 13 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 14 | Jesus , there 'd be so many things I could do I do n't even know where to start thinking about them . |
| 15 | Yeah you could do I do n't think |
| 16 | I would be grateful if you could let me know immediately whether of not you can help by providing an article . |
| 17 | I would therefore be grateful if you could let me know exactly what procedure is adopted to ‘ take account of environmental considerations ’ when decisions are taken and how , on the basis of the information which is consequently available , the balance is struck between development and the environment ? |
| 18 | I would therefore be grateful if you could let me know as soon as possible whether Hydro Aluminium Metals will be a sponsor . |
| 19 | I would therefore be grateful if you could let me know as soon as possible if Environment Wales could make a contribution of , say , £500 to £1,000 towards printing and circulation costs ? |
| 20 | Erm , if you could let me know as soon as possible about erm these people , because if not we 've got to , you know really try some other sources . |
| 21 | Even when he was n't there he 'd let me stay on . |
| 22 | And I remembered he 'd let me go out in the garden . |
| 23 | ‘ I looked down and thought he 'd let me fall too . ’ |
| 24 | At the door Gerald Seymour-Strachey said in his most patrician manner : ‘ I 'd be glad if you 'd let me know when Hilda Machin 's funeral is . |
| 25 | In fact he said to me ‘ You could be quite useful , you know , you could help me get through to her . ’ |
| 26 | You could help me find out if I 've made a terrible mistake coming here , and if — ’ She took a deep breath . |
| 27 | Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now . |
| 28 | I even got a job cleaning for £26 a fortnight and he spent that too , that used to make me feel dead small . |
| 29 | I thought it would make me feel less helpless if I was opposed by something definite . |
| 30 | ‘ My father would make me stand up straight and sing the national anthem four times . |