Example sentences of "[vb pp] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You 've never heard me complain about Annette 's cooking . ’
2 He had heard me talking to the Princess .
3 Some of you may have heard me say before that when I was a young ordinand I met up with a marvellous Canadian bishop , Ralph Dean .
4 But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday .
5 Nobody could have recognized me walking up Stuart Street .
6 The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong .
7 That one will be completed I imagine within the next couple of weeks .
8 Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds .
9 One final point I would make is is that there has been a a little bit of an impression given I think in some comments this morning that we have a a virtual free for all as regards the availability of agricultural land and er the marked change that it has been said to occur since nineteen eighty .
10 I remember how , when I was a naughty boy as I usually was , there being no corporal punishment , I was led about on a bit of string by my Headmaster , and one day when I was being reprimanded I laughed in the Headmaster 's face — I have always been defiant to all who tried to control me .
11 They 'll be exclamations and things they 're just exclamations that they 've heard I think on television .
12 What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years .
13 You have warm feelings for her too , but you 've let me succeed in courting her !
14 Think what I shall say is , I shall myself quite simply , if it ever gets out I 'll say well look I know full well that you would n't have let me stop at Helena 's you would have objected to it I said , but Andy 's mum and dad , Andy was like pretty bad so we left him there and I said I stopped up to help look after him .
15 They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine .
16 ‘ I did ask him why he had n't let me know on his way there that he would be coming later .
17 Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’
18 She should have let me prescribe for her ; I know an excellent liniment … "
19 He had not expected me to ask about his 1936 visit to Nazi Germany .
20 Then there was a strange silence , as if we 'd come to a full stop , as if he 'd expected me to react in some other way .
21 He 'd caught me talking to or
22 A few years ago you would not have caught me talking about underground publishing ; I have too many bad memories from the Seventies .
23 ‘ I was suffering from a virus and was n't really fit , so all things considered I had to be happy with my performance , ’ he said .
24 I 've got that targeted I think for an Easter job .
25 Right , now we 've come I think to future events , erm , and we need to just try and list anything you know that 's coming up so , partly so that we 've actually got it down writing and we can look back on it .
26 June must have noticed me staring at her .
27 He thinks it makes placing your own gear sound like an activity practised by people with one foot in the grave — although climbing at Gogarth has always made me feel like that anyway .
28 She did n't say why , but went on : " Seeing you two with that bit of a tree 's made me feel like celebrating .
29 I suppose having my hands in my pockets has made me think about this .
30 The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality .
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