Example sentences of "i [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Ca n't think of anywhere myself , let me think for a minute . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me think for a while . ’ |
| 4 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 5 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 6 | It made me think of a Bedouin taking out his prayer carpet and unrolling it in the vastness of the desert . |
| 7 | It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church . |
| 8 | She always wore a flowered cotton overall and her thin gingery hair framed a face that made me think of a martyr in search of grace . |
| 9 | I know what 's coming , it 's always the same , please God make her stop , help me bear it , let me think of a poem to say as a distraction , make this all go away , Charlotte , Alexander , Mother , everything , only not father , not the farm — ; |
| 10 | But it made me think of the voice that sent us to the bar ; he whispered then . |
| 11 | She was , however , immensely enthusiastic and encouraging , trying to make me think of the enterprise as a holiday as well as a mission with a sad and serious purpose . |
| 12 | His talk made me think of the housing estates near Mum 's house , where the ‘ working class ’ would have laughed in Terry 's face — those , that is , who would n't have smacked him round the ear for calling them working class in the first place . |
| 13 | Too much space and too much light in this courtyard : it made me think of the difference between his face and mine . |
| 14 | It made me think of the Palace Hotel . |
| 15 | She watched me eat for a while , mumbled something and left . |
| 16 | They ate nothing themselves , but watched me eat with a sort of respectful deference which made me uneasy , it being , I felt , inappropriate and therefore dangerous . |
| 17 | Let me explain for the benefit of viewers that a sump is like a U-bend in plumbing , permanently full of water , so that the only way through is to dive under the water . |
| 18 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 19 | He turned to a small table by the door , struck a match to light the oil-lamp , and then carefully adjusted it , making me wait for an answer . |
| 20 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 21 | I was knitting slowly , not feeling particularly well and the machine was good enough to let me know through the handle that there was a ‘ Hiccup ’ . |
| 22 | You know , when I said let me know about the blood results , I did n't expect you to call in person . ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps you could let me know at the meeting next Wednesday . |
| 24 | Well if you let me know at the meeting then I 'll . . |
| 25 | If you let me know at the meeting and . |
| 26 | Well let me know at the meeting . |
| 27 | Oh right , so let me know at the end of the week . |
| 28 | Something made me linger at the bottom of the grand staircase , near the bust of Unamuno , pretending to read some notices about student societies . |
| 29 | What a coil do I make for the loss of my punk |
| 30 | What contribution do I make to the group task ( the content ) ? |