Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pope John xxiii visited prison he said to the inmates ‘ You could not come to see me so I have come to see you . ’ |
| 2 | When your mother , good woman that she is , came to see me yesterday I was not shocked to hear what she had to say . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose you wo n't want to see me now your little mystery 's been cleared up ? ’ |
| 4 | It 's all to do with the C.O. He wanted to court-martial me , only I heard them trying to find me so I hid in the latrines and I do n't know what happened in the end . |
| 5 | No one seemed to want to serve me so I walked out and went home without so much as a plectrum ! |
| 6 | I had often rehearsed the choice phrases which I would use on this very occasion but the sight of the animal restrained me ; if he had come to consult me professionally I could hardly start pitching into him right away . |
| 7 | But if you 'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll have to ask Granny For&am to let me clean my shoes again when I get to her cottage , ’ she told herself , as she picked her way between the puddles and muddy ruts of the lane . |
| 9 | ‘ In a funny way it 's helped to give me back my sense of independence , and I do more physically than I did before . |
| 10 | If we 'd been engaged , I might have thought you 'd come to give me back my ring . ’ |
| 11 | He ignored the mop , just staring at me , and I saw him take a breath ready to defy me so I spoke before he could . |
| 12 | Come on , you 've gabbled enough and you 're just trying to put me off my game . |
| 13 | ‘ How dare you come here trying to put me off my guard with some absurd story ? ’ he countered with simmering hostility , regarding her belligerent stance with brooding interest . |
| 14 | trying to put me off it or not but |
| 15 | ‘ I will also return to England , and any further attempt to keep me here I shall count as kidnapping . ’ |
| 16 | erm then erm what I 'll do I 'll pick it up next week and that will obviously show you a bit more about Abbey Life and any , any of your friends or anybody you think might , might like to look at the video erm you know just to give them an insight , people you mentioned erm to me that you perhaps know you 'd like to pass the video on to them to have a look erm and if er er you 've got my number and if you want to ring me then I can get some more videos if you think other people might be interested I 'm quite happy to pass them on , on to you as well , okay ? |
| 17 | Their pompous promises and grandiloquent phrases failed to convince me so I quickly took the air in the graveyard where all the wolfs-heads , villains and counterfeit men hid from the law . |
| 18 | ‘ Then I would like it fine for you to advise me how I am to repaint my ceilings , Doctor ! |
| 19 | I remembered the sort of questions Father used to ask me when I was reading a book he knew by heart , and greatly loved . |
| 20 | My dates used to ask me why I was always hanging out with faggots . ’ |
| 21 | Merton 's clothes on this show had by now reached previously unfathomed depths : shrunk , unironed Magic Roundabout T-shirts and lumberjack shirts without washing instructions ( on the one occasion Merton wore a smart suit , he stopped the show mid-way through and exclaimed : ‘ Is n't anyone going to ask me why I 'm looking so smart today ? ’ ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I expect you want to ask me how I began in the theatre , ’ Stella said . |
| 23 | Do you like to ask me how I feel ? |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm waiting for you to ask me how I am . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Are n't you going to ask me how I am ? ’ |
| 26 | Outside the last bar the cab was waiting remorselessly , the driver with his face averted , waiting to take me somewhere I did n't want to go . |
| 27 | When they tried to take me away he explained , politely , that he was staying with me . |
| 28 | They sent him home from school or something , send him straight home from school and er , do n't know I suppose take him to hospital today and then , I assume they 've got to bring him home and he said oh no he said you have n't got to take me home he said cos the boy 's got to be from school , come round tomorrow and pick you up |
| 29 | He says my mum used to take me everywhere I wanted to go but she ca n't anymore so I 've got to get there by bus or by bike . |
| 30 | What I saw was scary enough to make me lower my hand . |