Example sentences of "i [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , no , let me answer that , Peregrine . ’ |
| 2 | Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Please , let me stay another minute or two , ’ said Melissa quietly . |
| 4 | You let me stay last year . |
| 5 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 6 | ‘ Let me make sure . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Let me make sure I 've got them right , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Erm , yeah just let me make sure I can get a baby sitter , it just depends what mum and dad are up to , I know they should have been out on Friday night |
| 9 | Right so let me make that clear again . |
| 10 | Let me make that absolutely clear . |
| 11 | The guiding principle for the Government , she said , was that health care should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay : ‘ Let me make one thing absolutely clear . |
| 12 | ‘ Let me make one thing clear . |
| 13 | But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I am being very reasonable , and let me make one thing quite clear . |
| 15 | But , in reply , let me make two fundamental points which , I think , make the original question far from otiose and the answer to it anything but platitudinous . |
| 16 | Let me make clear that when I say the conference of 1923 , and that night in particular , constituted a turning point in my professional development , I am speaking very much in terms of my own more humble standards . |
| 17 | " I make the tree stand up , if you let me make some of them little colour things . " |
| 18 | Or perhaps it is all that rain which makes me want more water . |
| 19 | ‘ Let me think first ’ he quipped . |
| 20 | ‘ Let me think first , ’ he quipped . |
| 21 | The Gay Black Group also made me think much more of the implications of being a man , of being an oppressor as well as someone who is oppressed . |
| 22 | All the time you ought to be asking yourself : " why should anyone believe what I am writing ? " and " what have I noticed in the text or in background , contextual materials that makes me think this ? " |
| 23 | Every time they came forward , you expected something to happen ( perhaps It was sitting in the north bank with the Cockney scum that made me think this ! ! ) . |
| 24 | The worst day we were out here working on the garden and it made me think this must be what it was like in the trenches |
| 25 | Well , let me throw that aside . |
| 26 | Let me phrase these in terms of my criteria of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |
| 27 | Yeah , let me eat this last piece of cheesecake then I can help you |
| 28 | mm , oh do n't let me eat any more of these because there too sickly would n't you like a Jamaican rum truffle ? |
| 29 | Let me eat some toast first . |
| 30 | Daddy 's gon na make me eat some tomato and , and cucumber |