Example sentences of "and [vb base] i [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could anyone ever knock any sense into this thick skull , and make me see what kind of a man I 'm stuck with ? ’ |
| 2 | Let me take hold of that weakness of yours and let me change your water into wine . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital . |
| 4 | Yes it is so because it is nostrum , cut out the nostrum , and let me give my heart to God — and all is ... [ rest of line illegible ] |
| 5 | And let me give you another quote : ‘ I love the vanquished , but I also love the victors . ’ |
| 6 | Come to me and let me give you what you want . ’ |
| 7 | Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter . |
| 8 | It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone . |
| 9 | ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’ |
| 10 | ’ Then waive your share and let me do it alone , ’ I suggested . |
| 11 | ‘ I want you to come out to Leytonstone with me and let me show you something . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I want you to come with me to Mr Sunil 's house and let me show you what I think happened to Billy Tuckett . ’ |
| 13 | And let me show you what I mean by that . |
| 14 | ‘ In that case you must come over some time and let me show you around . |
| 15 | I ca n't find a bit that Give me the pencil and let me show you . |
| 16 | And let me explain what I meant by that silly passage in my last letter , about expensively dressed girls . |
| 17 | Just relax and let me love you . |
| 18 | Erm And let me remind everybody because I do n't intend erm erm er waiting for for people to cough up on this so I would like to remind people to get , it it 's the thirteenth today . |
| 19 | Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 20 | Provided we take enough water with us there 's no reason why we should n't be able to hold out for a considerable time in the banqueting hall , which is in a far better situation for defence … and let me remind you that with every passing day , relief comes nearer … perhaps as much as twenty miles nearer with every day 's march … |
| 21 | Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on . |
| 22 | ‘ And let me assure you of something else — anyone who interferes with the smooth running of this place can pack their bags and get down the road right away . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And now , my dear , before you leave , let me take your hands in mine and let me feel your face . |
| 24 | It 's for this reason I 've gone against my initial instinct not to blow our own trumpet on this at the risk of provoking more ‘ bad loser ’ comments from certain people ( and let me stress I do n't mean the runners-up ) communicated to me . |
| 25 | Yesterday she looked at her eight-pound new arrival , born at Arrowe Park Hospital , and said : ‘ It was a fabulous moment when the doctors came in with him and let me hold him . ’ |
| 26 | She said last night : ‘ It was a fabulous moment when the doctors came in with him and let me hold him . |
| 27 | I think it might be an excellent idea if you forgot about everything else for a minute and let me hold you . ’ |
| 28 | Claire , Annabel and I are supposed to help distribute the food , and let me tell you , at some of these do 's it 's like feeding a pack of hounds . |
| 29 | And let me tell you , if you were to have come into our servants ' hall on any of those evenings , you would not have heard mere gossip ; more likely , you would have witnessed debates over the great affairs preoccupying our employers upstairs , or else over matters of import reported in the newspapers ; and of course , as fellow professionals from all walks of life are wont to do when gathered together , we could be found discussing every aspect of our vocation . |
| 30 | I 've had people try to put one over on me many times , and let me tell you , gentlemen , few people succeed . |