Example sentences of "i [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There was nothing for it but for me to drive the ten miles there and back and pick it up , because the doctors would need to examine him and sign the certificate at 6.30 .
2 When we came to Préfleur I asked Jean-Claude if he would teach me to drive the motor cycle .
3 One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call .
4 Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice .
5 ‘ Do n't be so fucking patronising , ’ she said , turning her back on me to continue a conversation with Geraldine Porter .
6 And the prophecy of Isaiah 61 : 1 , ‘ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me , for he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor … ’ stands in Luke 's Gospel ( 4:18 ) , as a beacon shedding light over the whole of his ministry .
7 I visited a one-man research station of the Cyprus Department of Agriculture who invited me to taste the products of many combinations of variety and soil .
8 Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day .
9 Mummy wants me to carry the tray in .
10 He 's too dear to me for me to pretend a love I do n't feel . "
11 IT IS normally gratifying enough for me to hit the ball in the air and in the general direction of the green .
12 Alec Reid was wonderful — not only physically , carrying pans of hot water to the stove when necessary , but morally , in allowing me to treat a patient in such an unorthodox fashion .
13 ONCE again baseless charges of lewdness and indecency in this column make it impossible for me to report the following headline in the newsletter of Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries : ‘ What 's Five Inches Long — and Worth £200 ? ’
14 You 've caused me to lose a whole valuable day 's work .
15 She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin .
16 I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day .
17 Ron and I thought that the best way to arrange this would be for me to interview the Prince about his uncle , and to tack the result on to the end of the obituary programme .
18 ‘ You have also invited me to wear a British hat , ’ Mark continued .
19 Yes will you give me to wear a tie ?
20 All those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition .
21 ‘ You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the Throne .
22 Which thought briefly led me to weave a vision or two .
23 I 'm eight and a half years old and disgusted that my mother has to come with me to see A Hard Day 's Night when usually she just sees me to the edge of the estate and across the main road .
24 When I was six my grandparents took me to see a film which I was told to observe closely because I would learn lessons about good behaviour and deportment from one of the juvenile characters .
25 I 'm off home for the morning , but you 're wanted to come with me to see a VIP about a missing person .
26 He was then involved in civil defence and he took me to see a trial designed to show that air-raid shelters built to government specifications were death-traps .
27 He took me to see a man who had the whole story .
28 For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed .
29 He wanted me to see a specialist in Harley Street , but I 'd heard so much about your clinic and Doctor Volkov , I said I wanted to consult her .
30 Lucy sent Silas a side glance as she said , ‘ When I first arrived you said it might be arranged for me to see a kiwi , but I 'll quite understand … ’
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