Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And , if you 'd given me the chance to finish , you would also have heard me specify ‘ for the general collection ’ . |
| 2 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've never heard me complain about Annette 's cooking . ’ |
| 4 | As you may have heard me mention already , I am involved in organising a one month summer school for 40 soviet teachers of English this July . |
| 5 | As some of you may have heard me observe , it has indeed been a sombre year . |
| 6 | Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean . |
| 7 | You must have heard me say them . |
| 8 | But she must have heard me say so , because at seven she came down and said she 'd overlooked this marvellous Stockhausen concert on Two — well , I just put on my coat and flung out of the house … |
| 9 | If he had , he would have heard me say that it was for the Attorney-General to enforce the law , not the Government . |
| 10 | If you make the same mistake , er , you have to buy another set , and I double the price for people who have heard me say do n't do this , er , and lie low , you know in the first three months , because I believe in penalising stupidity . |
| 11 | And , that again , might be me but many of you when you 've heard me say it in a service I 've ended up with my asking at the end of a sermon asking the congregation to smile . |
| 12 | Why have you heard me say it before today Seems strange that they need to throw out those old curb stones , you 'd of imagined they could of used them again , would n't you ? |
| 13 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |
| 14 | Herr Schikenader , the former proprietor , chanced to see me perform one evening . |
| 15 | The buggers want to see me go under . |
| 16 | She wanted to see me grow up , it was as simple as that , but it 's those simple things that are sometimes the hardest to accept . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ No one saw me come in here , but half Fleet Street 's going to see me leave , ’ said Quinn . |
| 18 | You 'd like to see me suffer , would n't you ? ’ |
| 19 | Because you 'd like to see me suffer for what you believe I did to Ryan ! |
| 20 | ‘ I know you 'd like to see me become a big tycoon like you , ’ Peter was saying , ‘ but you 'll just have to face it — I 'm not and never will be . |
| 21 | Some pensioner constituents who come to see me ask why they are penalised and punished . |
| 22 | It is understandable when pensioners who come to see me ask , ’ Who won the war ? |
| 23 | I pay a great tribute to my dad , who as a trade unionist on the railway would have been so proud to see me receive this very great honour . |
| 24 | People have me in a little pocket of their minds in that role [ Ben Braddock ] and they do n't want to see me get out of it . |
| 25 | ‘ The place was packed to the roof — to see me get a good hiding . |
| 26 | I wish the old man had lived to see me get the farm back . |
| 27 | When I was out of the room , he told Margaret that he wanted to see me write weightier books than that . |
| 28 | I only wish Tata had lived to see me take up my place at Bedford College . |
| 29 | she would , she was seeing me do it and I respect what she says and I do what I 'm told no she did n't say that |
| 30 | Quadratic equations were a great mystery to me , and seeing me struggle with a problem he would call me out and painstakingly take me step by step to a solution . |