Example sentences of "i [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle . |
| 2 | One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call . |
| 3 | Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice . |
| 4 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 5 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 6 | ‘ Peter Seabrook helped me build the pond on the programme , ’ he pointed out . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll ring Mr Pritchard to fetch me in the morning if you 'll just let me stay the night . ’ |
| 8 | So water for me represents the ordinariness of life which Jesus can take and make very special . |
| 9 | I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil . |
| 10 | I remember me gathering the hens up that night late oh about ten or eleven o'clock at night and we had our own power you see by that time . |
| 11 | Mummy wants me to carry the tray in . |
| 12 | Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans . |
| 13 | ‘ Fred lets me make the decisions , an' it was my idea ter sort this back room out . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then I 'll let you make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ bodies , ’ said Gurder , his voice just one step away from being threatening , ‘ and you 'll let me make the decisions that affect all nomes ’ souls . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll let me make the cakes ? ’ |
| 16 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 17 | Let me make the position absolutely clear to the House . |
| 18 | But let me make the point here that separatism and man-hating are different things . |
| 19 | ‘ You can come through to the kitchen and help me make the tea , ’ Miss Honey said , and she led the way along the tunnel into the kitchen — that is if you could call it a kitchen . |
| 20 | And it frightens me seeing the youngsters coming out carrying . |
| 21 | IT IS normally gratifying enough for me to hit the ball in the air and in the general direction of the green . |
| 22 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 23 | Ron and I thought that the best way to arrange this would be for me to interview the Prince about his uncle , and to tack the result on to the end of the obituary programme . |
| 24 | When I got back I had bed rest for a couple of days and then they had me scrubbing the houses and that . |
| 25 | Makes me think the things I 'm saying are very clever . |
| 26 | I smiled and her eyes smiled back enough to make me think the ice could just possibly melt there under the right circumstances . |
| 27 | Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people : those who knew what they wanted to do ; those ( the unhappiest ) who never knew what their purpose in life was ; and those who found out later on . |
| 28 | ‘ You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the Throne . |
| 29 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |
| 30 | ‘ Can you arrange for me to see the parents ? ’ |