Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This partially revived me after the £1,314 price tag made me feel faint . |
| 2 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 3 | You know me , Danny , I do n't go roun' askin' fer trouble but this geezer got me goin' . |
| 4 | The fact that my innocent inquiry had provoked such a defensive , almost hostile response got me thinking about what has been happening to the labour force since the mid-1970s . |
| 5 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 6 | Well , Ibrahim asked me to call in at Mohammed Fingari 's to get a package for him . |
| 7 | The first problem was to work out the correct overall send and return levels , but with the Quad-FX 's input and master volume set on unity gain I found the processors worked at roughly the same settings anyway , so there was n't much need to tweak the levels . |
| 8 | Now , the topic that Sheila asked me to talk about was skin care . |
| 9 | But I did wonder , after a year or more , how it was that he and Mme G expected me to use the public baths rather than offer me the convenience of the bathroom in the pavillon . |
| 10 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 11 | My parents are very accepting ; my mum encourages me to dress for comfort rather than fashion . |
| 12 | Mum encourages me to like my face without make-up . |
| 13 | ‘ Yer Mum asked me to call in and clear away the crocks and tek the chairs outside ready ter goo back ter the mission 'all . ’ |
| 14 | Mum asked me to ice his birthday cake while they were out and decorate it with chocolate leaves which I had to make first . |
| 15 | ‘ William made me sell it . |
| 16 | But when I returned from military service in 1960 , my employers asked me to represent them south of the border , in that troutless land beyond Mr Hadrian 's Wall known as England . |
| 17 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 18 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 19 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 20 | Money made me gu out an rob |
| 21 | Their ugly faces and unpleasant smell made me feel quite ill . |
| 22 | Cos mum made me laugh tonight but she came in and she said oh you can have a hot cross bun there , I said well I think I 'll have a piece of chocolate cake and she said alright then ! |
| 23 | Mum made me go into town with her to spend my Christmas money on clothes . |
| 24 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 25 | You know , you know what bit made me laugh ? |
| 26 | Caduta asked me to come to an address in Little Italy at two o'clock that afternoon . |
| 27 | The experience made me realize that there is more to speechreading/ lip-reading than meets the eye . |
| 28 | As a final thought , my enjoyment of the longer essays made me regret that we still do not have an Oxford Companion to the Earth Sciences . |
| 29 | Then after Sir Henry had gone to-his room , Holmes made me stand in front of the picture . |
| 30 | The last time I saw her was when Benedict Joseph shoved her into his car outside the Villa Fiesole , and Philippe made me go with him to Nice . ’ |