Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It will in any event be one vote , and in no way can I make it count for P and Q and R and S and T , or even just for P and Q.
2 He looks very ragged , so I made him go to bed and get some sleep . ’
3 I made him look at me and see how pale I am .
4 I made it seem like one .
5 And I make him work like a dog !
6 I make them play in uniform :
7 I make one remark about my life and it reverberates right through every else I do .
8 I make it sound as if he finds it easy … .
9 I make you work like a dog .
10 And so he leaned his weight on my shoulder and I helped him walk to his horse .
11 Well I 'd one come from Malta to England again , in nineteen sixteen and went on an old boat , they called it the Gurkha .
12 I let myself unwind at last — how good it feels to be back in the field , especially in this cinnamon-scented corner of the mortal sphere .
13 I kept that up until dawn , when the search party returned , Esmerelda-less , then I let myself go to sleep .
14 I let them swim in peace .
15 In an interview in 1983 Bishop Peter said : ‘ I have a house full of young people who spend a year with me praying and working in the community to get closer to God , and I let them impinge on my ministry .
16 But that rotten yellow-gutted two-timing little toad " — I let him go on like that a while , to get it out of his system .
17 Usually I let him go on the .
18 and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks
19 I let him sleep in my room at night , and he kept me awake for hours talking about Mrs Robinson .
20 Next morning I let him sleep until midday .
21 I let him get under my guard .
22 Cos I let him play with it .
23 I let him cry for a bit and then went over to him and squatted down beside him and put my hand over his shoulders .
24 I write about Agnes , I try to imagine her , I let her sit on a bench in the sauna , walk around Paris , leaf through a magazine , talk with her husband , but the thing that started it all , the gesture of a woman waving to a lifeguard by the side of a pool , it must seem as if I had forgotten that .
25 ‘ Although why I let her talk to me into doing such a foolish thing is beyond my comprehension . ’
26 I let her play with a small , single-string kite while I used a stunter .
27 ‘ If I let you talk to her , how can I stop Wilson ? ’
28 For four weeks I let it lie on my desk , unwilling to take the final step .
29 I let it hang in the air , like a question .
30 Yeah but I did still did see I do I wan na do a blue
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