Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [verb] [pron] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I may need you to show me where things are , ’ she turned to Jill , ‘ but the rest I can manage , even if I have to bluff my way through . ’ |
| 2 | But I I must say it fills me with trepidation . |
| 3 | I must say it gives me a certain amount of pleasure too . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I must say you amaze me . |
| 5 | " Excuse me , I should like you to let me in . " |
| 6 | ‘ I should like you to disturb me a little longer . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll make her tell me outright , he told himself as the maid rang the gong for dinner . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll make you believe me , so I will ! ’ |
| 9 | I 'll admit he gave me a start , because it was dim in the office and I did n't expect to see anybody . |
| 10 | dreary and black , I 'll remind you to remind me we said we would n't look back . |
| 11 | If it 's not for sale , I 'll pay you to let me borrow it . |
| 12 | Well if they 're not there I 'll ask her to ring me |
| 13 | I 'll ask her to marry me . |
| 14 | Then if I think she 's trustworthy , I 'll ask her to help me . ’ |
| 15 | Then I 'll come back again , and I 'll ask you to marry me . ’ |
| 16 | Because during the course of our discussions today I 'll ask you to introduce me to others if , and only if , you think this meeting with me today has been of benefit to yourself , would that be okay ? |
| 17 | And I 'll need somebody to wake me up for work tomorrow . ’ |
| 18 | But thank can also be followed by the bare infinitive , as in the following examples , which Jespersen ( 1940 : 289 ) qualifies as " rather vulgar " : ( 200 ) I 'll thank ye hand me the salt . |
| 19 | ( 201 ) And I 'll thank ye give me a glass of punch too , John . |
| 20 | I 'll believe he loved me just a little at least , thought Fenella , sitting quite still on her horse and looking about her . |
| 21 | That 's alright , I 'll let you drive me all the way round once so , he owes me a quid you see . |
| 22 | Because I 'm specially pleased with you I 'll let you buy me something to eat from your winnings and you can tell me what Constable Aplin was saying to you just before I came along . ’ |
| 23 | I 'll recruit somebody to help me service my client bank , because it 's better to have fifty percent of something than fifty percent of nothing . |
| 24 | " Yet if I could make him notice me perhaps he might consider my suitability as a wife . |
| 25 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 26 | I could feel it pulling me in , but I wanted to remain a bachelor . |
| 27 | I like you , Mrs Jackson , and I think I could get you to like me . |
| 28 | At first I was totally humiliated , and then I suppose in my heart , I truly believed that in that one week that he was mine , I could teach him to love me and to forget that Rachel even existed . |
| 29 | I could see them disbelieving me . ’ |
| 30 | That 's right , it 's just that I worked , I think , yesterday I could n't get into erm , I just could n't get into and yesterday I must admit I felt really rough and erm , I thought at three o'clock I was going to have to ring Iris , cos I knew you were still out you see and at three o'clock I thought I was going to have to ring Iris er just to come in cos I ca n't like your head was my stomach was churning over , it was n't till , soon as I get some food in front of me oh I get , you see I did n't feel too cracking in the morning and I thought well there 's lots of stomach bugs going about and I thought well I 'm having one of them , and I did n't know what I fancied for lunch and I cooked the kiddies theirs , they had fish and what have you , and erm , I thought well what can I have , I thought I what , I thought I got a little tin of salmon there , so I thought right I 'll have a salmon sandwich and I had that and believe me I felt , by three o'clock I could see myself picking me up off the floor , I only got spots before my eyes as such , but , I just had , I had four , five cups of water , I did n't drink any tea , and I wish then , well I do n't know whether I could have felt any worse when I had the sandwich or not to be honest . |