Example sentences of "i [vb infin] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
| 2 | If Mr Jackson sees me all grown up , then maybe he 'll let me stay here . |
| 3 | ‘ At least let me stay here for a while until I get my head clear . ’ |
| 4 | Would not let me stay here … |
| 5 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me stay here ! |
| 7 | Well , tell him it 's kind of him to agree to let me stay here , but I 'm turning down his invitation . ’ |
| 8 | Then with greater determination , ‘ You ca n't make me stay here . ’ |
| 9 | My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security . |
| 10 | Even when he was n't there he 'd let me stay on . |
| 11 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
| 12 | ‘ And since you know it , I do n't understand why you 're making me stay there . |
| 13 | Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings . |
| 14 | I 'm really disappointed cos I do n't think my mum will let me stay now ! |
| 15 | Let me emphasize here that functionalists are happy to accept that many of our mental states are associated with conscious awareness . |
| 16 | Oh erm let me slow down this bit , erm no it 's twen , oh it is twenty six ninety nine anywhere else , I 've seen it but in Argos , Wi , well William looked in the catalogue on Tuesday for me , but he said it was nineteen ninety nine in Argos |
| 17 | I am writing this partly to get it clear in my head and to help me make up my mind . |
| 18 | Those were the Somalis , let me make that clear . |
| 19 | It makes me want out . |
| 20 | Another type of pattern that always makes me think carefully about how I 'm going to position it is one with a vertical element and which is asymmetrical for example pattern 4–29 ( Fig 6 ) . |
| 21 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 22 | I find that I 'm questioning my own authority , which makes me think even more . |
| 23 | Hearing of this preliminary training for the Parachute Regiment at Hardwick made me think up an indelicate version of the famous old rhyme about that prodigy house , ‘ Hardwick Hall , more glass than wall ’ : ‘ Hardwick Hall , sore a — e when fall ’ . |
| 24 | Fox 's example has made me think again . |
| 25 | This makes me think why did he go & Deane arrive ? |
| 26 | She says it has made me think why is there no local transport readily available . |
| 27 | But that just makes me think why , that 's what makes me think she 's living . |
| 28 | It 's only now that I feel that I could actually decide to have a relationship which is specifically going to be monogamous , which is a really big change for me … that makes me think immediately of AIDS but I 'm not sure . |
| 29 | I was , moreover , amused by the juxtaposition of names in the Bedford High Street — Blood , Sand , DeAth : the bullring , of course ! — which made me think back to my Special Subject paper in the Finals , on the Spanish Background of English Literature . |
| 30 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |