Example sentences of "[det] [to-vb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have all this to keep me going . ’ |
| 2 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 3 | Lucenzo , are you doing this to make me go home ? ’ |
| 4 | I know I was , and it took a tragedy like this to make me see straight . ’ |
| 5 | To be honest it did n't do much to encourage me to live for Jesus and I do n't think it did anything at all for my non-Christian friends . |
| 6 | You have refused to pay what has been asked for my return , but if you knew what I have become , a fearless old man with nothing left to lose , you would pay twice as much to have me kept away ! |
| 7 | Three to one my friend in the courtyard is there just as much to stop me leaving as to stop others coming in . |
| 8 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 9 | Can I just say that after the last meeting and you urging us all to write I did write to them . |
| 10 | I recruited twenty one members that morning , a few more to come I hope . |
| 11 | Oh it has come lovely now , with the old sun but there 's more to come I think . |
| 12 | Now , if you do n't have anything more to say I suggest that you leave . |
| 13 | That was enough to set me weeping . |
| 14 | It was n't a fortune but was enough to help me buy my first flat and first TV . |
| 15 | ‘ But just knowing that Walter is likely to change things around for the next big game is enough to keep me going . ’ |
| 16 | Er will I have enough to keep me going , ? |
| 17 | Alice were having I said just lend me that twenty pound note cos you , and God knows what she thought the bill was I says I 've got seven pound , I says just lend me your twenty pound note , I says you 'll still have enough to pay I says and I 'll give you it back when I get home , you know ? |
| 18 | Why , that would be enough to take me to see my nephew Tim and his children at Gridford ! |
| 19 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 20 | This is enough to make me feel like I own the world . |
| 21 | I do n't expect you to get everything right , but to describe the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception as coming from a ‘ literal translation ’ of a controversial biblical passage ’ is enough to make me chuckle — especially in a piece headed ‘ Fundamentalism — The |
| 22 | This was enough to make me forget the abstract art of 1912–13 ! ’ |
| 23 | Once he 'd gone , I was approached by a woman who started rubbing my stomach and putting her hand down my trousers , which I must say was enough to make me say yes immediately . |
| 24 | I find that wilfulness in itself is enough to make me turn away from something . |
| 25 | It 's enough to make me believe in fate . ’ |
| 26 | Fingerboard shrinkage on new instruments has two possible causes — excessively dry storage or shipping conditions , or the use of hastily-seasoned fingerboard blanks — and although it does n't affect the SJ-20's playability in any way , it might be enough to make me put this particular guitar aside and buy a different example of the same model . |
| 27 | It was strange because there were only two of them , and normally it takes a lot more than that to make me feel outnumbered . |