Example sentences of "and [vb base] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I want you to come out to Leytonstone with me and let me show you something . ’ |
| 32 | ‘ I want you to come with me to Mr Sunil 's house and let me show you what I think happened to Billy Tuckett . ’ |
| 33 | And let me show you what I mean by that . |
| 34 | ‘ In that case you must come over some time and let me show you around . |
| 35 | I ca n't find a bit that Give me the pencil and let me show you . |
| 36 | And let me explain what I meant by that silly passage in my last letter , about expensively dressed girls . |
| 37 | Just relax and let me love you . |
| 38 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 39 | Shut up , and let me watch this play . " |
| 40 | Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 41 | Erm And let me remind everybody because I do n't intend erm erm er waiting for for people to cough up on this so I would like to remind people to get , it it 's the thirteenth today . |
| 42 | Provided we take enough water with us there 's no reason why we should n't be able to hold out for a considerable time in the banqueting hall , which is in a far better situation for defence … and let me remind you that with every passing day , relief comes nearer … perhaps as much as twenty miles nearer with every day 's march … |
| 43 | Conservative in , three times that for which we put on for and let me remind you again that out of that seventeen pounds , you put eleven on , not us , you put it on . |
| 44 | ‘ And let me assure you of something else — anyone who interferes with the smooth running of this place can pack their bags and get down the road right away . ’ |
| 45 | Then he called a policewoman , and a policewoman came , and I went to the station , and they searched me , and let me go . |
| 46 | ‘ Well , leave me , ’ he said , and let me go . |
| 47 | Would n't he call it a day , and let me go home ? |
| 48 | Her eyes closed , she turned her face away , released her hold on my cheekbones and let me go on into the hall . |
| 49 | ‘ Just untie me and let me go . |
| 50 | Just do me a favour and let me go ! ’ |
| 51 | The members are accountable and let me go back about the committees . |
| 52 | But since , so jump upon this bloody question , you from the Polack wars , and you from England , are here arrived , give order that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view ; and let me speak to the yet unknowing world how these things came about : so shall you hear of carnal , bloody and unnatural acts , of accidental judgments , casual slaughters , of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause , and , in this upshot , purposes mistook fallen on the inventors ' heads : all this can I truly deliver . |
| 53 | ‘ And now , my dear , before you leave , let me take your hands in mine and let me feel your face . |
| 54 | Let me be mysen , and let me feel as if tha' wor littler than me ! dunna ma'e me feel sma' , an' down ! — else I canna stop wi' thee . |
| 55 | By thus consenting they form one body politic and it is implied in the contract that the majority have the right to conclude for the rest and let me quote for when any number of men have by the consent of every individual made a community they have thereby made that community one body with a power to act as one body which is only by the will and determination of the majority it being necessary to that which is one body to move one way a single body ca n't move in two opposite directions simultaneously . |
| 56 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 57 | ‘ Explain it to me , and let me decide . ’ |
| 58 | Yes , it 's all go on the rumour exchange and let me stress that these are but a few of the juiciest . |
| 59 | It 's for this reason I 've gone against my initial instinct not to blow our own trumpet on this at the risk of provoking more ‘ bad loser ’ comments from certain people ( and let me stress I do n't mean the runners-up ) communicated to me . |
| 60 | In the middle of our talk I began to speak as if to some demon , telling him to hold his tongue and not interrupt my talk , and let me serve these gentlemen for it was already late . |