Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me to go ahead and finish it . ’ |
| 2 | She told me to go away and stop pestering her . ’ |
| 3 | I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers . |
| 4 | So they asked me to go away and come back again in a week which gave me breathing space and time at least to learn it properly . |
| 5 | I took this as his Imprimateur , his permission if you like for me to go away and write aqbout what Toad really got up to next rather than being annoyingly good as he is at the end of Wind in the Willows |
| 6 | They told me to go home and talk it over . |
| 7 | ‘ You almost convince me to go home and change ! ’ he teased softly . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're not expecting me to go home and wait till they shoot that boy on Friday ? ’ |
| 9 | So it 's easy for me to sit here and say , we think we 're doing a good job on the environment , because we 're not threatened , we do have to find ways round existing chemicals , we may have to pay , pay a higher price , but we 're not threatened in terms of the the core of our bottom line . |
| 10 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 11 | And I know it 's very easy for me to stand here and say you know try to keep calm and polite and reasonable . |
| 12 | I asked quickly and walked off with her glass before she could reply . |
| 13 | And although the sex was something I endured rather than enjoyed , it was a learning experience . |
| 14 | So how do you just I mean rather than do it in your head , especially in an exam , just what you 're going to do , put the Add X to both sides say . |
| 15 | I mean rather than do all the photocopying or whatever . |
| 16 | Well I , I mean now that does n't sound , that 's not such a an Irish statement as it sounds , actually . |
| 17 | Every day I lay there and repeated an exercise of counting how many branches on the tree outside I could make out . |
| 18 | Then he turned away and went to sleep and I lay there and wept , feeling an absolute failure ’ . |
| 19 | So I sit here and wait ? |
| 20 | Whilst I sit here and admire your expertise and |
| 21 | If I sit here , she thought , my hand guarding the pulse , if I sit here and do not move , I shall not die . |
| 22 | The kind of songs I sit there and enjoy singing are like ‘ Eternal Flame ’ , songs that have rich melodies . ’ |
| 23 | So I have to I I sit there the week before I get the you know before I get the money , I sit there and work it all out . |
| 24 | I checked carefully and did n't find one . |
| 25 | ‘ I got home and had the sensation of pins and needles up my left side which affected my face , tongue , leg and arm . |
| 26 | in front of them , so I waited until I got home and took me slipper off and whacked his bum , I said the next time I said that 's what 's gon na happen , I said you can do what you like when we go out I said but just remember what you 'll get when we come back |
| 27 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 28 | I only felt slightly ashamed when I got home and saw my children . |
| 29 | But when I got home and found my answerphone knee-deep in angry messages I did n't really have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out that you had something to do with it . ’ |
| 30 | She came in to me as I knelt there and raised me up , and said we must never quarrel and that she would never , ever , give me cause to doubt her , and I must not suppose she could . |