Example sentences of "[vb -s] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I see , when he sees me park there , flash me , I just follow on , you know |
| 2 | She sees I do n't understand . |
| 3 | When she hears me come into the room she does n't look round or say ‘ Hello ’ . |
| 4 | She sort of flinches but I dab real soft and she lets me finish . |
| 5 | Never mind : no-one lets me do any painting now — and I ca n't say I mind . , . |
| 6 | Rob — he started it all , oh , ten or more years ago — he lets me do odd jobs around the studios in return for — well — anything I want to do , it 's fabulous . |
| 7 | An awful Terry Wogan — type link that lets me mention … |
| 8 | ‘ The rich trash pay the bills , Mr Breakspear , which lets me give my spare time away to the poor trash . ’ |
| 9 | Ibrahim 's got a video and sometimes he lets me watch it . |
| 10 | Dad rarely lets me watch TV |
| 11 | ‘ Fred lets me make the decisions , an' it was my idea ter sort this back room out . ’ |
| 12 | Just as he sometimes lets me beat him at chess . |
| 13 | But when he lets me switch it on |
| 14 | And sometimes he lets me pull the strings . |
| 15 | T'missus at Laurels lets me bring 'ome what I want and I reckon them carnations is me favourite . " |
| 16 | ‘ I pay the rent and he lets me sleep here . ’ |
| 17 | If he lets me go he 'll have to trust me . |
| 18 | And to Cadfael he said doubtfully : ‘ And Herluin lets me go ? ’ |
| 19 | The policeman is civil and he lets me go , commenting on my eyesore of a car , warning me to get my tail-light repaired . |
| 20 | " Matt lets me go whenever I want . |
| 21 | Well he even went , Arf lets me go see strippers and everything . |
| 22 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 23 | To me , in a book containing so many emotions , I find dialogue really important because it lets me know exactly how the character is feeling rather than leaving me to make my own assumptions which are often wrong . |
| 24 | she lets me know . |
| 25 | She lets me brush her hair sometimes . |
| 26 | " Besides , you ought to see the luxury the department lets me live in now . |
| 27 | Oh that 's what I said , I said it is but if you can get him to say you know , Sting 's deserted me you know he , he lets me live on a , you know , my twenty three quid a week pension . |
| 28 | I wish it was yesterday , I wish I was just climbing over the rocks in dear comfortable Mrs McPhee who does n't mind getting wet and lets me breathe — ’ |
| 29 | She lets me take time off , I mean she 's really understanding . |
| 30 | Mostly my father just gives me the money that I ask for and lets me get what I want for myself . |