Example sentences of "i [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , no , let me answer that , Peregrine . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Please , let me stay another minute or two , ’ said Melissa quietly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Right so let me make that clear again . |
| 5 | Let me make that absolutely clear . |
| 6 | " I make the tree stand up , if you let me make some of them little colour things . " |
| 7 | Or perhaps it is all that rain which makes me want more water . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? " |
| 10 | 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 ! ! ) . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Well , let me throw that aside . |
| 13 | Let me phrase these in terms of my criteria of necessity , sufficiency and specificity . |
| 14 | Yeah , let me eat this last piece of cheesecake then I can help you |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Let me eat some toast first . |
| 17 | Daddy 's gon na make me eat some tomato and , and cucumber |
| 18 | And she makes me laugh all the time — laughter is tremendously bonding , it 's the greatest thing . |
| 19 | ‘ He was incredibly good company ; he used to make me laugh all the time . |
| 20 | No Peter does n't make me laugh either . |
| 21 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 22 | and I had Mike ironing them while I was putting 'em up , I said right stand here and watch me hang this curtain , so I 'm showing him how to iron it , so while I 'm upstairs putting 'em up he 's ironing |
| 23 | And let me assist such reflections by reporting that a gifted and earnest English poet of thirty-two , whom I met this very summer , not only confessed that he had never read through Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts , but quite plainly saw no reason why he ever should . |
| 24 | Okay Suzanne , now you had to slacken off the halyard to let me tie that last knot so if you could tighten it up again that will pull the sail up to the top of the mast . |
| 25 | I 've not seen anything since then to make me doubt that . ’ |
| 26 | The only thing that makes me doubt that is that the general proposition underlying it appears to have received some incoherent support from the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 27 | You 've seen me , she 's seen me flirt all the time . |
| 28 | Now let me consider some of the situations which lead to poor welfare ; these have a variety of different effects on animals and I will go over them rapidly . |
| 29 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 30 | Let me qualify this statement . |