Example sentences of "i [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 2 | He seemed to have forgotten about only letting me loose on water . |
| 3 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 4 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 5 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 6 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you think that she 'll let me stay for good ? |
| 8 | ‘ You let me stay aboard Water Gypsy — even though you hated the idea . ’ |
| 9 | Would you let me stay with you then ? ’ |
| 10 | Please let me stay with you ! |
| 11 | Let me stay with you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Let me stay with you tonight . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I 'd be immensely pleased if you 'd let me stay with you at your place and take care of you for a while . |
| 14 | You made me stay with you while they were away and you should n't have . |
| 15 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 16 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 'll make me want to be a Brownie even more ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 19 | He taught me the fundamentals of the job … unsparingly … he channelled my discontent and made me want to be an actor . |
| 20 | M. It makes me want to be sick . |
| 21 | I do n't think it will make me a vegetarian but it might make me think about it . |
| 22 | I suppose having my hands in my pockets has made me think about this . |
| 23 | He did a very good job , but it made me think about what would be right for me when I died . ’ |
| 24 | The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality . |
| 25 | Let me think about it . ’ |
| 26 | the S O four and the N H four that 's a double negative and that 's a single positive it 's going to be two N H four S O four no erm let me think about it again er |
| 27 | Let me think about it . |
| 28 | Let me think about it . ’ |
| 29 | The idea came from the experience of pulling hair out of the bathtub ; ‘ this made me think about the things that are worthless , that we want to get rid of , the embarrassing hidden things like body hair , and the things we value and cultivate — in our culture , for instance , the head of hair is usually the first thing people register when they look at someone , a great deal of energy and money is , therefore , expended on hairdressing and styling . |
| 30 | He let me think about that , a long , tense silence between us . |