Example sentences of "[verb] i [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You did n't need to hit me that hard . ’ |
| 2 | He said tie this and I 'll give you a penny , but he never gavr me any money . |
| 3 | It was an unexpected rest and it has taught me many things , like patience . ’ |
| 4 | My experience with the pensions inquiry had already taught me one invaluable lesson . |
| 5 | I agree with Kev — I reckon 3–1 is a good bet for tomorrow.But one word of warning … years of painful experience has taught me one golden rule in football betting — NEVER back your own team — there 's nothing more guaranteed to jinx them . |
| 6 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 7 | Coming home 's taught me that . |
| 8 | Cancer has taught me that life is n't a dress rehearsal , this is it and you only get the one chance . |
| 9 | ( My friend Simone has taught me this . ) |
| 10 | Paul you gon na throw me another pencil I seem to have lost |
| 11 | Er the gentleman coming from Scotland on Saturday is bringing me all the table linen and we 're table linen for . |
| 12 | ABOVE As time went by , more and more people started bringing me injured birds to look after . |
| 13 | He 's not bringing me any supper . |
| 14 | She had come north , summoned by a War Office telegram to see me that first time . |
| 15 | So I mean , John was right , she did come to see me that time . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not like people coming to see me unannounced , ’ he explained . |
| 17 | Feeling desperate and willing to try anything , Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring . |
| 18 | Before I left , I asked if she would come to see me one day . |
| 19 | For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children . |
| 20 | And the maintenance engineer at Ffestiniog , Mr , I know him very well , he came here er like you did downstairs , come to see me one evening . |
| 21 | Andrea was up to see me one day . |
| 22 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 23 | But along that bare and silvery rim of sand , any self-respecting wild thing could not fail to see me first . |
| 24 | So you 'll want to see me first . |
| 25 | He should be here to see me married , but he did n't dare come after you punched his — ’ |
| 26 | ( There is a man in the corridor who wants to see me dead ) |
| 27 | There are people at that factory who want to see me dead . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Anyway , I 've come to see me old mate Bella here . |
| 29 | The new owner , Mr. Bolsover , came to see me last week , and I 'm afraid he may not let us go on using the barn . |
| 30 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |