Example sentences of "i [to-vb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mummy wants me to carry the tray in . |
| 9 | IT IS normally gratifying enough for me to hit the ball in the air and in the general direction of the green . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I think he was surprised by my reaction , so he asked me to lunch the next day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the Throne . |
| 15 | ‘ It has been very disturbing and hurtful for me to see the way things have happened , ’ Charlton said . |
| 16 | I do n't know how it came to be shown at the Carlton , East Ham , but one Sunday my parents took me to see The Sheep Has Five Legs starring the French comedian Fernandel . |
| 17 | She drew aside the curtain of a small window and stood back for me to see the picture thus revealed . |
| 18 | It was a pleasure to me to see the housewifely way in which Mr Wilson set about everything . |
| 19 | Sleeman 's Indian journeys , his great interest in local customs and religious beliefs , his explorations of temples and ruins wherever he went in pre-Mutiny India , helped me to see the Irish as an Indo-European people . |
| 20 | It is a great joy for me to see the discipline and enthusiasm of these players . |
| 21 | If you 're too busy with all your equipment , I 'm sure she can take me to see the baby . |
| 22 | There was enough light from the sky for me to see the padlocks . |
| 23 | That is why it disgusts me to see the nobility of grief caricatured in this way . |
| 24 | Whatever I use , whether it is a crystal ball , a pack of cards , or an article belonging to somebody , it is simply a stageprop ; something that gives me the right vibrations and helps me to see the right pictures . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Is it possible for me to see the Queen now ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I pick up the pencil , put it back , climb into the trunk of the car and you drive me to see the boy . |
| 27 | ‘ They took me to see the dancing . |
| 28 | It seemed queer to me to see the windows all dark and the curtains still not drawn … |
| 29 | I have often missed him , often felt that if only I could talk over a particular problem with him he would help me to see the way . |
| 30 | ‘ Tomorrow I would like you to come with me to see the laibon . |