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 | ‘ She virtually kidnapped me to bring me here , ’ he said . |
| 3 | You 'll have to kill me to stop me going out there . |
| 4 | Anyway , as I was saying before Adam interrupted me see I fancy Adam , he 's really nice . |
| 5 | I made them show me their identification … |
| 6 | ‘ I shall go and make them cook me some breakfast . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't make me split me sides , ’ said Dolly , ‘ you can talk all right , do n't I know it . |
| 8 | I know I ca n't help , but just to be there will make me feel I 'm fighting to get Liam back . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't make me feel I 've got one foot in the grave already ! |
| 10 | I do n't want them to brand me a bully-boy because I 'm a National Socialist , to discredit me through their media . |
| 11 | This is a highly competitive field and I did n't want them to rule me out when it comes to promotion because they think I lack commitment . |
| 12 | I did n't want them to see me crying . |
| 13 | We do n't as yet have any friends in the street , but we 're on Hello terms with a few neighbours , and frankly I would n't want them to see me putting all these flowers on a skip . |
| 14 | Bit my lip — did n't want them dragging me back in there for a patient . |
| 15 | I do n't want them to ask me any more questions , so what I do is I lie back in the sofa and shut my eyes like I 'm asleep . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I did n't want them noticing me even a little . |
| 18 | ‘ Let's just say I would n't want them protecting me , ’ Whitlock replied . |
| 19 | ‘ If you would prefer me to drive I can drive , ’ said the man . |
| 20 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , listen to that , and after she near 'ad me cryin' me eyes out for 'er . |
| 22 | be a doctor ’ — She asked me had I thought it out ? |
| 23 | Says Eugene modestly , ‘ Kurt asked me did I want to go on , and I said ‘ Great ’ , but I shat myself . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | She rung me up and asked me did I want a microwave oven ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So he made me pretend I was in a dead faint . |
| 29 | ‘ You made me miss me stop , you fucker , ’ said the Punk . |
| 30 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |