Example sentences of "i [verb] [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lameducked her just to show the Vestal Virgins that I was cleverer than they . |
| 2 | I manipulated you here to punish you and you 're right — I 'm hurting myself as well as you . ’ |
| 3 | I wear my hair long and I comb it forward to hide as much as possible of my face . |
| 4 | Then I bring them home to wash and I unravel them before they dry . |
| 5 | I got nothing else to do , and at least we 'll be able to feel we 're trying . ’ |
| 6 | say anything about you like it 's only if I got nothing else to say really |
| 7 | I got someone else to follow her . |
| 8 | I got it principally to tow my trailer about but it can hardly get itself along . |
| 9 | I expect him so to do . |
| 10 | I found it best to suspend the tube containing the eggs as soon as the embryo could be seen inside . |
| 11 | The other aspect is there are a large number of people a large number of these countries depend on their forest industries for producing foreign exchange which is particularly scant , a lot of the world , particularly Africa is suffering from debt problems , erm I worked in Uganda for 14 years and I found it really to get back there : the salary of a forest officer now is something , is worth in real terms something like 1 percent of what it was in 1962. erm His salary in 1962 was something in the region of six thousand a year in present terms , it 's now worth £60. erm He has to go out and get most of his livelihood from some other source , and Uganda 's an extreme case , but there are many other African countries where the position is similar . |
| 12 | I say it again to show there is no ill will — ‘ Doth a fountain send forth at the same place , Sweet water and bitter ? ’ ' |
| 13 | I want us still to go out together , I want him to be my boyfriend , I really need him to confide in , as I do n't seem to have a close girlfriend . |
| 14 | That 's when I want you here to keep a watch on him . ’ |
| 15 | I want you just to close your eyes for one minute everybody please . |
| 16 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 17 | I told them always to hold their heads up high because , at the end of the day , this family is as good as any other . |
| 18 | ‘ Furthermore , I told him either to provide substantive proof of his allegations or be prepared to be sued for defamation of character . ’ |
| 19 | I told him also to get cheese moments and scampi fries , and he may stop at McDonald 's . ’ |
| 20 | I told you just to count them . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I told you never to come here ! ’ |
| 22 | I told you before to get some mince and put potatoes in and that , see |
| 23 | If I do n't help myself , how can I expect anyone else to want to help ? ’ |
| 24 | After I have cut , straightened and sharpened the stakes I put them away to dry out and stiffen — to season — before they are used . |
| 25 | Er we you know I put it away to bring it out , out in here ? |
| 26 | I am not sure now if I ever proceeded to knock ; it is quite possible , given the alarming nature of what I heard , that I judged it best to withdraw altogether . |
| 27 | I begged him just to let me see her . |
| 28 | It is not practical politics to abolish private schools , nor do I believe it right to do so , in the interests of freedom . |
| 29 | I was sure the triptych mirror was one of her own treasures and I opened it carefully to see myself as I brushed my hair and applied a quick dab of lipstick , the red paint which marked me as a Westerner as surely as my blue eyes and blondish hair . |
| 30 | I teach them never to let anyone outsmart them ; I teach them to better themselves . |