Example sentences of "i [to-vb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was later that evening that he took a white muslin dress out of the bag with which he had returned from Paris and asked me to wear it as a nightdress . |
| 2 | It does n't seem to me to affect it in any way . |
| 3 | The assistant changed the battery and told me to monitor it for a week for any problems . |
| 4 | Would you like me to arrange it for you ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ They enclosed full details of their Mavica asking me to compare it with my patents . |
| 6 | Furthermore , he never asked me to write it in his place . |
| 7 | Mr Hellyer asked me to hide it for him . |
| 8 | The issue here is not only Where do I locate my response ? , but Where ought I to locate it in order not to be misguided , or plain wrong , or reveal my ignorance or blindness ? |
| 9 | ‘ Am I to spend it for your pleasure or my own ? ’ |
| 10 | In poetry such a transport is evoked by a pattern of words ( selected by the poet perhaps with the most intense thought and effort ) , which stabilizes it and allows me to evaluate it at leisure . |
| 11 | Don t ask me to justify it for him , because I ca n't , but that 's what he believes . |
| 12 | he told me to put it on it |
| 13 | yeah cos David 's , oh do you want me to put it in the van ? |
| 14 | You told me to put it in the safe place . |
| 15 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ They told me to give it to you , Headmaster , ’ said Robert . |
| 17 | I am saving up a full account until our return , for it is impossible for me to give it in writing . |
| 18 | It seems they did n't trust me to do it for you . ’ |
| 19 | They gave me a line of coke , and asked me to do it for them . |
| 20 | At most , she 'll reprimand you , and she 'd hate that so much she 'd probably ask me to do it for her . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , do you want me to do it for you ? |
| 22 | My willpower may not may not strong enough for me to do it for long , but , I 've actually , I 've got that choice , to choose to do it , it 's something I do . |
| 23 | ‘ So be my witness , ’ he said , ‘ that before the face of God and in your presence I swear this : that when God 's good time serves me to do it without injury to my foremost obligations to Him and to my country , I will take and destroy the castle of Parfois for the wrongs of Harry Talvace dead and Harry Talvace living . |
| 24 | want me to do it on my own would you ? |
| 25 | Do you want me to do it by doing the graph or |
| 26 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 27 | He , they left the er they 'd gone said leave it in the conservatory , then he went out and and and and er shut his conservatory so they could n't leave it so they asked me to keep it for him . |
| 28 | Right , now erm would it , would you like me to call you Martin during this discussion or would you like me to keep it to er Mr ? |
| 29 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 30 | ‘ I think Stan expected me to grab it with both hands and when I declined , he just sat there and could n't believe it . |