Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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31 When you said no you made me think now
32 I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap .
33 Such belligerent consolation made me think more , not less , about that strange woman he had coupled with on the Nile .
34 You made me think more clearly about what I wanted from life . ’
35 ‘ The state of my health and my voice last year were making me think seriously of my pension , ’ he said .
36 AIDS has made me think twice about how safe the whole thing is .
37 The river bottom was ridged sand , a difficult and unkind footing , that combined with the cold and the rush to make me want to go fast while forcing me to go slow .
38 Mr Jaggers clearly thought Joe was a fool for refusing money , and left the house , reminding me to go straight to his office in London in a week 's time .
39 He told me to go ahead and finish it . ’
40 He told me to go ahead quickly . ’
41 When we arrived at her house , Eva put her hand on my shoulder and told me to go upstairs to Charlie .
42 Catherine , who was over-excited , ordered me to go upstairs with her .
43 Do you want me to go again ?
44 Do you want me to go again ?
45 When we were in port he let me off work and allowed me to go ashore for as long as I wanted : " After all , you 're here to see these places .
46 Like the rest of the drivers , he knows when each of the cruise ships is due in and he usually waits for me to go ashore .
47 ‘ You mean — you want me to go somewhere else . ’
48 So they asked me to go away and come back again in a week which gave me breathing space and time at least to learn it properly .
49 The men motioned me to go away , and after they had looked at Jordi 's papers I saw them escort him to a car .
50 Try ‘ I 'm pleased that the office manning problem is on next week 's agenda — I 'm worried that it needs more urgent attention ’ or ‘ I love it that you 've asked me to go away — it 's bothering me that I 've got to do this report by Monday . ’
51 It 's telling me to go away . ’
52 I fetched the rum and they told me to go away .
53 I knew that they would be criticized by the Fontanellatesi for allowing me to go away and live in a distant city among thousands of Allied soldiers .
54 She told me to go away and stop pestering her . ’
55 They gathered their filthy , scant rags about them and screamed at me to go away , their putrid breath freezing on their blue lips .
56 I took this as his Imprimateur , his permission if you like for me to go away and write aqbout what Toad really got up to next rather than being annoyingly good as he is at the end of Wind in the Willows
57 No , I just sort of accost people and talk to them and normally they pay me to go away !
58 they did n't want me to go naturally .
59 ‘ Oh the MOI 's dead keen for me to go too .
60 But they were going for a walk , they had come in to make him go with them , and they wanted me to go too .
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