Example sentences of "[vb base] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To picture a man in words , one 's much like another , ’ said Aldhelm , ‘ but bring me to see him , I 'll pick him out from a thousand . ’ |
| 2 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 3 | Make me feel I have some kind of base to my life . |
| 4 | ‘ You make me want you , ’ he murmured . |
| 5 | For ever and ever I 've followed this team It 's Leeds United They make me scream We always get mastered By who ? |
| 6 | make me laugh they do |
| 7 | Make me see it , ’ and Grainne turned back . |
| 8 | ‘ You almost make me wish I had enrolled on your course , ’ said Melissa , with a certain lack of sincerity . |
| 9 | ‘ You make me wish I were going ashore . ’ |
| 10 | From the very first time you took me to the pictures , you started to change me , shape me in your own image , make me like you . |
| 11 | Ever constructive and logical , Wynne-Jones influenced events , and was a credit to the concept of the Life Peer I miss them all . |
| 12 | service I reckon we keep the nation 's quotient |
| 13 | I fear I fear I fear/ |
| 14 | The cummerbund , meant to be worn with the singlebreasted jacket , is also acceptable , but I fear I find them rather affected . |
| 15 | But I , I mean I use it as a , that may be the psychology behind it , but I use it as a bad example of , for obvious reasons , and there 's a real bad example , and there may be some politics behind it , there 's What I think is a good example : ‘ Southeast Arts ’ sorry , ‘ Southeast Tourist Board , South of England Board . ’ |
| 16 | I think I think er these days people take er take baths and showers quite often and you have to be pretty close to somebody before you smell them I guess , I mean I hope you do anyway . |
| 17 | I mean I hope you wo n't have a cold , so you should n't do . |
| 18 | what he says behind my back , I mean I tell you someone else who 's two faced , Marcus is two faced . |
| 19 | I mean I imagined he was working in Earl 's Court , you know , pulling pints of Fosters and er |
| 20 | I mean I fucked it up ! call as well see what that one 's gon na be like . |
| 21 | I think it 's a very wonderful thing I mean I regard him as a warmonger World War Two by his eighteen month should have been |
| 22 | I mean I saw her at eleven o'clock at night going jogging with a plastic bag wrapped around her arms . |
| 23 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 24 | I 'm , I 'm certainly as I was going to come on to explain and the way you will see ourselves working , is not people who sit in the Town Hall and just turn out reports , I mean the kind of work we do and the way we work means that were actually very much involved in the community groups , but I mean if it was , if it was thought to be an issue that we needed to have greater community involvement , i.e. to resurrecting that forum then that 's something that , you know , we may need to address , but I never saw it as operating like that anyway , I mean I saw it as it 's almost like in a cabinet of members mainly . . |
| 25 | Well I sa , I mean I took her on to look after her and I did n't think there would any problem |
| 26 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 27 | and I put twenty thousand pounds to give , I , I mean I took it that she would use her allowance , er I took it erm as twenty thousand pounds to give his wife as high a possible gross earning |
| 28 | I mean I assumed he wanted me to know Poindexter 's name was Beethoven … it did n't just slip out . |
| 29 | But I mean I mean we still walk round there 's wires hanging and connectors . |
| 30 | And meanwhile we 'll keep going you know and er and do what we have to do which is to make sure that when they get dow when they get round to that table sitting down that well certainly the the quarry men are not gon na be hungry if if you know what I mean I mean they they gon na sit there with full bellies in a sense that they 're not gon na be starved back and I mean th that sounds rather dramatic and a cliched but I mean when you 're living on the bread line and expecting money from week to week I mean that 's what it 's all about is n't it you know and and the food parcel . |