Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm naturally enough you would n't expect me to agree with Miss that erm the figures that we 've put forward are against the regeneration strategy . |
| 2 | He seemed to have forgotten about only letting me loose on water . |
| 3 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 4 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 5 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 6 | ‘ You let me stay aboard Water Gypsy — even though you hated the idea . ’ |
| 7 | It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked . |
| 8 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 9 | Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog ! |
| 10 | Surfing Hawaii was like being in the Blitz , and it may have been the thought of death that made me think of love . |
| 11 | Hair against skin makes me think of glamour . |
| 12 | The sight of the greyish kettle beside the gas-ring , and of the yellowish mug which has been drying on the little draining-board for the last fifteen years , makes me think of tea . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're expecting me to go without back-up . ’ |
| 14 | Brian Ross wanted me to go on camera to say so , but I refused . |
| 15 | He used to call for me to go to school , and that could be an eventful journey because the way led through the Sayers ' farm at West New Houses , and they kept a flock of geese and a bull . |
| 16 | He aimed for me to go to school but brass he could n't pay , |
| 17 | Hard to explain the conflict in our acquaintance , but perhaps I had an instinctive feeling that she , in fact , wanted me to go to bed with her , and she knew I would n't — because if I did make love to her , it would be a victory for her and a defeat for me . |
| 18 | eyes on before and when it was time for me to go to bed I would be encouraged not made |
| 19 | Deep safe water was a dark royal blue , while over a coral reef the sea shaded to green or , when perilously shallow , to brown , and Thessy , peering ahead , would shout at me to go to port or starboard , or even to go backwards as fast as the motors would catch hold . |
| 20 | That 's because he do n't want me to go to work . |
| 21 | I think life is easier for me than it would be for a lot of working women because of the university creche , which enables me to go to work and sort of see my daughter at lunch time , that sort of thing . |
| 22 | How do you expect me to go to sleep after you 've told me something like that ? |
| 23 | ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’ |
| 24 | If that 's what they want for me , Benny asked herself , why on God 's earth are they allowing me to go to university ? |
| 25 | The time came for me to go to university . |
| 26 | Allow me to go to perdition in my own fashion ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I do not accept that David Trippier is supporting the action of the trade unions , or is asking me to go to arbitration , or expects that the management , having made a final offer , should move from that final offer . ’ |
| 28 | Er , so you can say that er Mr is a friend of pensioner 's , he said , he said he would be prepared to , what I , I , I approached him and said er , what about Harlow Caring Council , are they prepared to assist the pensioners in any way or do they wish to join in on this , oh yes he said , of course Norman he said , how much are you paying er Ron I said well his asking forty pound for the , for the morning , oh he said I 'll go half way with that , then he came out and said to me , pull me up afterwards and ask me to go to leisure services about the Tuesday , and so I 'm still following that up and hopefully we will have two days on pensioner 's week , because you want to have as much impact as possible and in a few moments , when I nearly finished here , I shall be reading you something where you 'll see that it is important that we make an impact on the people of Harlow . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose you 'd like me to go into purdah ? ’ she enquired scathingly . |
| 30 | I mean fancy expecting me to go by tube |