Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 2 | Anyway , as I was saying before Adam interrupted me see I fancy Adam , he 's really nice . |
| 3 | I know I ca n't help , but just to be there will make me feel I 'm fighting to get Liam back . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't make me feel I 've got one foot in the grave already ! |
| 5 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 6 | ‘ If you would prefer me to drive I can drive , ’ said the man . |
| 7 | be a doctor ’ — She asked me had I thought it out ? |
| 8 | Says Eugene modestly , ‘ Kurt asked me did I want to go on , and I said ‘ Great ’ , but I shat myself . |
| 9 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 10 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 11 | For the parent , the same phrase means the inverse : I have not given birth to the monster which my upbringing and socialisation led me to believe I 'd had , but to a normal member of the human species as I now define it . |
| 12 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 13 | So he made me pretend I was in a dead faint . |
| 14 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 15 | Maria Luisa made me swear I would never tell anyone and I did because she needed to trust someone . |
| 16 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 17 | That made me feel I must have done something to deserve this . |
| 18 | He always made me feel I was doing something wrong . |
| 19 | Then I picked up my things at the stationer 's and walked home , ignoring the distressing tugs of the magnetic field , which made me feel I 'd wasted my morning by not doing the thing I 'd set out to do . |
| 20 | Started chucking names around , made me feel I ought to read them . |
| 21 | You made me feel I had , but I have n't . |
| 22 | I failed the Eleven-Plus — that horrible thing and that made me feel I was n't any good . |
| 23 | She was only twenty when she was saddled with me , yet she never made me feel I was a drag , and heaven knows a kid sister must have been at times . ’ |
| 24 | He really you know made me feel I say I were n't sat there like I was with that fella thinking well he do n't seem to know what he 's saying anyway . |
| 25 | It made me think I was going to abuse my own kids . |
| 26 | The angle of the lamp cord on the bar made me think I saw a hearing-aid cable extending from Fielding 's ear . |
| 27 | I suppose the , the sort of things that made me think I might be suitable for social work have been coming from working with the young . |
| 28 | painting the kitchen once and I got into so much trouble it took him so long to rub it all off and start again , he made me promise I 'd never touch a paint brush again but he I mean , he would definitely be able to tell you what paint he used and |
| 29 | He made me promise I would n't say anything about it . ’ |
| 30 | It made me realize I 'd actually have to work on these aspects . |