Example sentences of "i [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you want me to sew this back on for you babe ? |
| 2 | ‘ When I saw death coming towards me I began to think it had been a bad business for me to kill that guy . ’ |
| 3 | There were an awful lot of tedious hours for me to kill that evening . |
| 4 | ‘ You can come and help me to carry some pictures , George dear , ’ she said to young Curdle , who was skipping about the playground . |
| 5 | This ingenious arrangement has two advantages : it scents the house with an acrid , invigorating smell of frying cloth recalling a tailor shop in the Bronx , and it permits me to tend two kerosene burners , a Franklin stove , and a fireplace . |
| 6 | " You asked me to report preliminary findings as soon as I could , so I 'm giving you a ring , " he said . |
| 7 | Why I 've been , it will be ten months that 's all Rita , ten month it took me to lose six stone , you do n't want to lose that much do you ? |
| 8 | ‘ Clever of me to acquire such information , do n't you agree ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Nerina 's always on at me to wear western clothes , ’ confided Mrs Khalid , ‘ but I like to be comfortable . |
| 10 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 11 | ‘ Allow me to weave coloured strands into a ribbon to bind your hair . ’ |
| 12 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 13 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ To allow me to see that woman in the land . |
| 15 | The flat roof of our own house was high enough for me to see two summer screens for free . |
| 16 | OPENING up your excellent Have a Rattle page , it continually sickens me to see so-called Glentoran supporters giving their manager the verbals in the press . |
| 17 | But if it was so easy for me to see this evidence and to talk to those who had substantial proof of their ownership of homes in mandate Palestine , surely it would be no more difficult to go to Israel , find those same homes and — the idea had a special excitement about it — to knock on those same front doors . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you shall have it as you wish , though it goes against the grain with me to see this fellow go free . |
| 19 | ‘ You want me to see this guy , sir ? ’ |
| 20 | She has woven her spell and allowed me to see another world , another life , a life of the spirit . |
| 21 | I was surprised it had both a sunroof and air conditioning as they seem to me to cancel each other out . |
| 22 | Given the excellence of the cause which benefits from the sales of ‘ Ruby Trax ’ and the generosity of the artists etc , etc , it would be churlish of me to rubbish individual tracks — although there are one or two here which have tempted me sorely — so I will pick out some highlights for you . |
| 23 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 24 | 12.20 : Another Social Worker asks me to arrange half-day visit to the School . |
| 25 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 26 | Henry Ratter had arranged for me to attend several training courses , including the two-day ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop . |
| 27 | Marie told me she 'd teach me to swim one day . |
| 28 | And you would like me to provide that management ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Will you bring me to meet this man ? ’ he asked . |
| 30 | In retrospect , the greatest disservice Charles Howard ever did me was the way he had somehow made it impossible for me to trust this man . |