Example sentences of "i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I 'd be immensely pleased if you 'd let me stay with you at your place and take care of you for a while . |
| 32 | You made me stay with you while they were away and you should n't have . |
| 33 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 34 | Thanking you for the great benefits of your goodness to me tokened in these natural provisions here . |
| 35 | I have heard from Prudential Property Services with details of your proposed purchase of the above property for £52,000 subject to Contract and I expect that I shall be receiving the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors in the course of the next post but perhaps you will kindly telephone me and let me know whether you wish me to proceed with the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and the Local search with the East Herts District Council . |
| 36 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 37 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 38 | She asked me to apologize to you , should I see you , for not having answered your last letter . |
| 39 | Rosemary , playing safe , refused to go out with him unless I came too so in the end we used to make up a foursome with Henry 's pilot , Jimmy , and with me sticking to my policy of not getting involved . |
| 40 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 41 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |
| 42 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 43 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 44 | M. It makes me want to be sick . |
| 45 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 46 | It was easy for me to pretend to be in love with the Princess . |
| 47 | I do n't even like you ; you 're virtually blackmailing me to work for you , and now you want me to pretend to be your girlfriend ? ’ |
| 48 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 49 | They asked me to report to them every week , but I did n't go , and they stopped my benefit . |
| 50 | It is normal for me to report to the Council 's Planning Committee the end of year disease statistics and any recommendations which might be necessary in line with the management strategy . |
| 51 | ‘ Unless , of course , you 'd prefer me to report to the Reichsführer that we lost this man because of your stupidity . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ The Kha-Khan wants me to report on his conduct . ’ |
| 53 | Did you expect me to fall on your neck in some touching display of filial affection ? ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Do n't expect me to fall on your neck in gratitude , Merkut , ’ he said . |
| 55 | ‘ Would you kindly explain to me why you have allowed a confidential document belonging to me to fall into the hands of a junior member of my staff ? ’ |
| 56 | It was a common experience for me to fall in love with love and then be led up the garden path , only to be rejected and mocked . |
| 57 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 58 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |
| 59 | ‘ One ca n't give cast-iron guarantees , just as you ca n't give me guarantees about my safety if I was to go to Birmingham , ’ Mr Thomas replied . |
| 60 | Do n't get me wrong , I like flashy bass playing and it would be wrong for me to sound as if I did n't approve ; it 's just that these kind of situations are always a trade-off . |