Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 2 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 3 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 4 | I just do n't see how you can kiss and cuddle me in the department when nothing at all is going on between us , and then just as soon as there is , you switch it all off like a blasted tap ! ’ |
| 5 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 6 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 7 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 8 | ‘ So he can stay and assist me with my enquiries . ’ |
| 9 | One evening , when his golf match had been cancelled , he decided to drive down and collect me from the river . |
| 10 | I mean you 'll have to come and see me about that because it 's fairly confidential so but they are very very good . |
| 11 | h he 's got a , he 's coming down from Edinburgh and he wants to call in and see me about something and I do n't know what because I 've only spoken to his secretary . |
| 12 | The new plough will be ready any day now and already I 've had farmers come and see me about turning over both new and old ground for them . |
| 13 | ‘ Invite you to come and see me on your next leave , ’ she laughed . |
| 14 | Sort of have it all over Who is it 's gon na come and see me on Monday ? |
| 15 | I said that if any of them would like to come and see me at home , I would explain exactly what was happening . |
| 16 | The minute they say well , no that 's no good to me , you 'll have to come and , you 'll have to come and see me at eight , say , well I 'm busy then I 'm afraid . |
| 17 | Her and Kate will come and see me at four o'clock and her and Kate will come and visit you . |
| 18 | Could you come down and see me in my office , please , Dorothy ? ’ |
| 19 | There were several others who used to come and see me in Baldersdale , particularly after the first television programme went out in January 1973 , including some of the nurses . |
| 20 | But listen , you must come and see me after your journey . |
| 21 | Little is known of his early life except for his recollection that at the age of nine or ten he ‘ did so offend the Lord that He did scare and terrify me with dreadful visions ’ , and that he was greatly afflicted at that time with thoughts of the Day of Judgement . |
| 22 | This capacity of language to crystallize and stabilize me for my own subjectivity is retained |
| 23 | Sturt was about to proceed upon a new expedition into the interior of Australia I beg to send for your perusal a Letter I have lately received from him and from which you will perceive that he has written to Lord Stanley ; as I know no one better fitted for such a purpose than this enterprising and persevering Gentleman I do hope the Government may be disposed to second his views ; perhaps , your Lordship , could obtain and favour me with some information on the subject ; from the manner in which you referred to him in your Letter I am led to believe that some arrangement has already been made ; pray say if such be the case . |
| 24 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 25 | But but if you if you wanted to er come and meet me from work we could go straight off somewhere then . |
| 26 | ‘ Why do n't you come and join me for dinner tomorrow evening , and I 'll tell you then . ’ |
| 27 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 28 | If he told Mr Jackson then he 'd come and take me to Combe Court , and I do n't want that . |
| 29 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |
| 30 | ‘ But … but why did n't she come and take me with her ? |