Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ My parents ' break-up made me grow up very quickly which really helps quite a lot in my profession , ’ he says . |
| 8 | My parents are very accepting ; my mum encourages me to dress for comfort rather than fashion . |
| 9 | Mum encourages me to like my face without make-up . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Mum asked me to ice his birthday cake while they were out and decorate it with chocolate leaves which I had to make first . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Money made me gu out an rob |
| 15 | Their ugly faces and unpleasant smell made me feel quite ill . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | Mum made me go into town with her to spend my Christmas money on clothes . |
| 18 | That bit made me think even then . |
| 19 | You know , you know what bit made me laugh ? |
| 20 | The experience made me realize that there is more to speechreading/ lip-reading than meets the eye . |
| 21 | My natural reserve made me recoil at this blatant approach , as did my total commitment and loyalty to Leslie . |
| 22 | And a few months later the Prince asked me to marry him . |
| 23 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 24 | The sight of him standing there smoking made me realize how little any of us in Benedict 's knew what he was really like as a man , once out of the defensive armour of his white coat . |
| 25 | His look made me feel guilty , though I could n't think why it should . |
| 26 | Mum got me to reach down a tall vase from the mantelshelf . |
| 27 | You know that people were able to afford this like everything else er mass produced I mean at er that the public get the benefit . |
| 28 | Mum helped me put my clothes in the drawer . |
| 29 | She handed me Little Ben , advised me not to let Home Sister catch me leaving it so late , and took herself off . |
| 30 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |