Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mrs Girdlestone has agreed to let you stay on while I try to find somewhere near where I live . |
| 2 | My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security . |
| 3 | I mean , Mike was like , you gon na stay down and I was , I have n't seen anybody at college all week , so I think I 'd better go back , actually . |
| 4 | I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid |
| 5 | Now a bad habit that I got into , right , a customer will be talking to me and I do n't know if you 've noticed it , I wo n't let them finish what they 're saying , I 'll jump in because I 'll know what they 're asking me |
| 6 | The roof of the barn concerns me because eventually it will fall in but I dare not start on it just yet — the house must take priority . |
| 7 | ‘ When I saw Honey End and Greek Scholar coming at me I did n't think they could catch up but I gave Foinavon one more slap just in case as we jumped the last . |
| 8 | So if the client says , I want to , I 'm gon na pack up when I 'm fifty , you write the plan to finish at fifty-five . |
| 9 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 10 | jump up , see if he can jump up before I count three . |
| 11 | I 've a lot , a lot of my friends have got big dogs and they say oh they will jump up and I say squeeze her paws , it usually works |
| 12 | ‘ I wonder , ’ she muses to Naomi , getting back in the taxi , ‘ if my tongue will fall out because I lied to a rabbi ? ’ |
| 13 | And I almost added that my hair would probably fall out if I had to spend too much time with him . |
| 14 | I do n't go out and carry on like I used to . |
| 15 | I will still carry on and I 'd like to see , on this T-shirt here , at the end of the day , we have saved . |
| 16 | I 'll be back late , she said to Madeleine : I 'll lock up when I come in . |
| 17 | We changed the front brake master cylinder and spoiled the feel of the brake : if I tried to keep braking as I went into a corner , the front wheel would lock up and I would crash . |
| 18 | If I do n't pass it at the third time I 'm just gon na give up cos I 'm not failing more |
| 19 | Sometimes I took speed — ‘ blues ’ , little blue tablets — to keep me awake , but they made me depressed , they made my testicles shrivel up and I kept thinking I was getting a heart attack . |
| 20 | ‘ But you just have to put it all behind you and I just hope that my back trouble will clear up and I 'll be able to start playing again soon ’ . |
| 21 | I was so afraid tonight when you did n't show up that I 'd made the biggest mistake of my life in letting you go back to England without trying to extract a promise from you . ’ |
| 22 | Nick 's worryingly calm words , ‘ I should watch out if I were you — there 's an avalanche , ’ triggered Steve and myself out of our sleeping bags like shots from a gun . |
| 23 | for June to starting , and then she said , did you rule off when I told ya . |
| 24 | This report does touch on if I find the paragraph speak . |
| 25 | When I do n't achieve something that I want to achieve , I 'll just keep on until I do . |
| 26 | ‘ I wo n't look in before I go to see your Uncle Walter in the morning . |
| 27 | So erm er if you wan na look through that I 'm no doubt . |
| 28 | ‘ I daresay , ’ said Lydia , ‘ but hell could freeze over before I 'd have him back . ’ |
| 29 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 30 | He did n't look up when I entered the bedroom , he just put a paw on the end of the sirloin steak he was chewing to make sure I did n't grab it . |