Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You ca n't expect me to agree with you on every single thing , Papa , " he said , keeping his voice low so that it did not carry to Senator Sherman and his sons , who were strung out in single file on their ponies behind them . |
| 2 | ‘ Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I 'd be immensely pleased if you 'd let me stay with you at your place and take care of you for a while . |
| 3 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 4 | There was a lot of tooth-sucking for a while as he tried to get me to say more and that was almost funny , given that it was the tooth-sucking that made me think of it in the first place , suddenly thinking . |
| 5 | Why did you let me read about it in the papers ? |
| 6 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 7 | It did occur to me that since everyone seemed to be playing a game with rules unknown to me , Robert might not be concerned only that I would be bored by myself , but he might want me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 8 | He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 9 | A friend of the Websters ' son ( who was in the Middle East ) took to visiting the house rather often , and one evening he asked me to go with him to the cinema in Bletchley . |
| 10 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 11 | A man I 'd met only twice , a bit of a loner , invited me to go with him to the West Indies . |
| 12 | So , when the captain of a ship asked me to go with him to Guinea in Africa , I agreed . |
| 13 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 14 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 15 | She urged me to go with her to concerts and the theatre , and took me as her guest to the Edinburgh International Club which , owing to the presence of so many servicemen from overseas , was then an active and flourishing society . |
| 16 | I was afraid to leave Edinburgh , even momentarily , in case there was word from the War Office , but in September 1944 my mother persuaded me to go with her to Bedford for a short holiday . |
| 17 | ‘ You want me to work for you after the way you 've treated me ? |
| 18 | At their recent meeting Nether Wyresdale Parish Council asked me to write to you about the following : |
| 19 | Interestingly he 's talking about — this is written on the third of May , talking about the present splendid weather , which is , plus the recent report that too many British industrialists are making themselves ill because they do n't take their holidays has prompted me to write to you about our holidays . |
| 20 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , something happened recently which has prompted me to write to you in this unsolicited way , though God knows we were once . |
| 21 | Peter called to him : ‘ Lord if it is you , tell me to come to you over the water . ’ |
| 22 | He was rather taken aback but said he would report to head office and let me know about it in the New Year . |
| 23 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 24 | I asked for it at the suggestion of my cousin Sarah , who was slightly older than me and whom I greatly admired . |
| 25 | I asked for it on Wednesday , she 's gone me one , she put in this bag and |
| 26 | Well , perhaps I asked for it in a way , ’ Felicity admitted reluctantly . |
| 27 | try and get some information on this they felt that they were confident that at the end of the day that erm , approval would be given but erm I I I asked for it in writing and they said we would n't be getting that . |
| 28 | I asked for you to be brought here to do a specific job . |
| 29 | Then I asked of him concerning the suffering . |
| 30 | I grin at myself in the mirror . |