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

No	Sentence
1	Because you 'd like to see me suffer for what you believe I did to Ryan !
2	I think that 's what I think , but I 'm not sure that if I 'd been born here I 'd be pleased to see me walking down the lane .
3	At this Mr Healey was jolly pleased to see me trapped in the Thickets of Quotation , and , again merrily , said , ‘ Plato ?
4	But my great joy is that my parents both lived long enough to see me established on television .
5	There was nobody about to see me knocking on Sally 's door .
6	The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside .
7	They 're too glad to see me to worry about authenticity .
8	Dr Livesey came out of the house in time to see me climbing into the stockade , and my friends welcomed me happily .
9	It does n't improve his nerves now to see me sitting on his carpet timing Casey 's phone rings with my stopwatch to work out the number he dialled .
10	Grace Hinkle loves to see me making like an executive and remembering to charge up all expenses .
11	Kindly do n't presume to issue me orders in my own house . ’
12	‘ Not very much , just enough to enable me to come to Ireland . ’
13	It is also used to restore I breathing following a barbiturate overdose
14	In fact , the only social folly I committed was to pretend I understood about contraception .
15	Any artist I represent could tell me I am useless , but no one will ever be able to claim I stole from them , because I have never had the opportunity .
16	Now listen I want to see I want to s Have you got buttons today ?
17	to support I think for .
18	Frankly there just is n't enough original or really exceptional material to tempt me to part with thirty pounds of my hard-earned cash .
19	To be honest it did n't do much to encourage me to live for Jesus and I do n't think it did anything at all for my non-Christian friends .
20	‘ Do n't be surprised to find me sitting on the tee in the lotus position , ’ he warned .
21	Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night .
22	I , I need it to help me to get to Hanley or something like that and , and he does this all the time , and I look at him and I think well you know fancy being like that , surely we 're in a welfare state , there 's no need for that , I do n't know what his circumstances are , he may be homeless , I do n't know where he comes from and he just appears there and he carries on as if he loves the job , and that 's only in this country , but if you go abroad , many of you have been abroad have n't you ?
23	And equally colleagues there is also , it 's true believe me , and normally there 's another one up there , a no smoking sign so please be restrained , if only to help me to get through the week with my voice which is usually very bad !
24	And he wanted to help me to get under way you see but I was n't long started farming .
25	I am sure that Opposition Members will be delighted to hear me speak about the free market because they were in some doubt about whether it would be possible for Conservative Members to mention that .
26	Then they tried to persuade me to part with the silver and everything else that had belonged to my husband .
27	Gizzmo keeps trying to persuade me to go with her but I do n't really want to .
28	They were both trying to persuade me to continue with the radiotherapy and drugs . ’
29	He was also dubious about the interview ; he tried to persuade me to settle for interviewing Ortega 's brother , Humberto .
30	And further , he said that it was his determination to see me again , to persuade me to live with him , that had streng-thened in him the desire to go on living , a desire that had been weak since the death of Montaine .