Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a real weakness for clothes and I like my mum to help me choose them , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I 'll recruit somebody to help me service my client bank , because it 's better to have fifty percent of something than fifty percent of nothing . |
| 3 | To help me recover my confidence ? |
| 4 | X amount is going to be needed to help me achieve my objectives . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know anything except I 've done something unforgivable and you have to help me undo it . |
| 6 | — Even sent somebody round to help me do it . ’ |
| 7 | You 're under orders to help me do it . |
| 8 | ‘ Since you had yourself a very good motive for murdering him , I should have thought that you would wish to help me identify anyone else who had . ’ |
| 9 | Lord Airlie also went out of his way to help me find my feet . |
| 10 | I do n't have to ask you what I should do in my spare time , and — and I suppose now you wo n't want to help me find my mother , and that 's all right with me , I do n't care ! ’ |
| 11 | The only reason I came here was because the Madam gave me your name and said that with your underworld connections you might be able to help me find someone . " |
| 12 | " But it 's going to help me keep my share of the house , and Aunt Alicia would approve of that . |
| 13 | ‘ If the archaism is meant to help me understand you , I do n't like the implication , ’ said Connon with a smile . |
| 14 | It was n't a fortune but was enough to help me buy my first flat and first TV . |
| 15 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 16 | Her Spanish is very good , but she speaks to me in English to help me learn it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Can you raise money to help me fend them off ? |
| 18 | I belonged to that great multitude who could n't help liking Dick Crossman : he and I were always nice to one another , right to the day in 1974 shortly before his death when he came to the Birmingham Bull Ring in acute physical discomfort to hear me advise my fellow-electors to vote Labour if they wanted out of the Common Market . |
| 19 | ‘ You were surprised to hear me speak my mind . ’ |
| 20 | Now , my dear , I do n't know about saying shocking things — and I must confess , although the Rector would be horrified to hear me say it , that I should be very tempted to say shocking things at Langley Dene , such very new money my dear , everything so dreadfully bright and shiny — as I was saying , I do n't know about saying shocking things , but you are certainly doing them . |
| 21 | Now er she 's not here to hear me say it , ungallantly she 's Julie 's overweight now and she was pretty overweight then was n't she ? |
| 22 | I know something about you that you do not know yourself ’ He paused , again as if to let me prepare myself . |
| 23 | But she turned to let me undo it and I got impatient with the damn thing . |
| 24 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 25 | It 's very kind of you , maltster , to let me bring them in here . ’ |
| 26 | And this is the second day you 've refused to let me bring my bedding up . |
| 27 | I think I 'm gon na try and persuade my Mum to let me bring my camera in for the last day of term , I 'm gon na get a bottle of from the shop that 's on . |
| 28 | That position received the strongest support from various members of the family , and it was only by strenuous and prolonged efforts that I have been able to persuade them to let me bring you this memorandum , which contains , as I 've said , all the relevant items in the letter . ’ |
| 29 | Oh it 's hopeless trying to help you in n it , you 're so independent you wo n't have no one help you and the pen 's not coming out , see you 're not doing it right I do n't mind helping you , but you 've got to let me show you , now go all the way along , round the Q , come round here , come round here , round here , back along , stop . |
| 30 | Long enough to let me do what I need to do in Lothian . |