Example sentences of "and [vb base] i [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 It 's got ta make me jump up and down and make me want to knock walls down to secure a deal . ’
2 Soho , meanwhile , enthuse and make me feel like a miserable old fart .
3 Two days ago I ate baited carrion left out for fox or crow over in Skye and its effects were to poison me and make me feel near death .
4 The ‘ personality ’ had to conceal my natural impatience , my moods , my fatigue and make me appear endlessly dynamic and reassuring .
5 ‘ Okay , blue-eyes , ’ I drawled , even though they were green , ‘ be difficult and make me twist the information from you until you scream for my kisses … ’
6 falling down his trousers and make me laugh and shout , I 'll always feel so happy when the comes about ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , ha , the funny circus clown
7 And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now .
8 ‘ I 'm to be slightly too clever , the hare to your tortoise , so that you can plod past me half-way round the course and make me look a fool . ’
9 Could anyone ever knock any sense into this thick skull , and make me see what kind of a man I 'm stuck with ? ’
10 Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it .
11 Your cousin warned me off again , we had a little set-to in the pub , so I thought I 'd better come and make me mark . ’
12 It will have a positive effect on me , and make me play better . ’
13 So Judge — gave us a 21-month suspended sentence and let me walk out the court .
14 They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair .
15 And let me mention this .
16 Today I asked him to bind me and gag me and let me sit at the foot of the cellar steps with the door out open .
17 Let me take hold of that weakness of yours and let me change your water into wine . ’
18 ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital .
19 Lean over here and let me whisper . ’
20 Yes it is so because it is nostrum , cut out the nostrum , and let me give my heart to God — and all is ... [ rest of line illegible ]
21 And let me give you another quote : ‘ I love the vanquished , but I also love the victors . ’
22 Come to me and let me give you what you want . ’
23 Erm the bonus element of the Pearson scheme is highly leveraged we are very keen to achieve above-average performance for our shareholders and let me give you an example , if in nineteen ninety erm Pearsons as a company achieved say five percent growth in earnings per share erm the directors ' remuneration , and by the way that 's not a forecast so I want to make that absolutely clear , it 's just an illustration if earnings per share increase by five percent and you could say , er , therefore we would expect directors ' remuneration to be perhaps increased by five percent that would n't be the case at all our directors ' salaries would actually halve erm , Ill say that again , directors ' total take home pay would halve because the salary element would n't , would n't alter .
24 It 's just — I want to go home and tell them to shut up about the exam results and let me do my own thing and leave me alone .
25 ’ Then waive your share and let me do it alone , ’ I suggested .
26 Now , for God 's sake , go to bed , and let me do the same . ’
27 ‘ Go away and let me do my work , or we 'll be running on one staff nurse and half an aspirin . ’
28 ‘ Now for heaven 's sake get some sleep — and let me do the same ! ’
29 If you had left well alone and let me carry on my business I would n't be here .
30 ‘ Let's say that he should have come to me first , ’ George said in a heavy , measured tone , ‘ and let me sort the whole thing out .
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