Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb infin] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | h he 's got a , he 's coming down from Edinburgh and he wants to call in and see me about something and I do n't know what because I 've only spoken to his secretary . |
| 2 | So I started to get people to come in and ask me to specifically teach them stuff that was on my records . |
| 3 | One evening , when his golf match had been cancelled , he decided to drive down and collect me from the river . |
| 4 | Could you come down and see me in my office , please , Dorothy ? ’ |
| 5 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 6 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 7 | ‘ If I pose for a photograph will you all go away and leave me to some peace and quiet ? ’ |
| 8 | Why do n't you go away and leave me to it ? ’ |
| 9 | Good , he thought , if I really work on her she 'll go away and leave me to it . |
| 10 | Music was very important to Norman and occasionally he would come over and invite me to concerts and films . |
| 11 | Nigel had arranged that his son-in-law ( his daughter Caroline 's husband ) , who was living and working in Denmark , and his nephew James from California would come over and help me with the move . |
| 12 | Er I 'd just like one to call up and tell me about their pay . |
| 13 | And the best load of hay — he 'd come out and ask me at the finish . |
| 14 | ‘ And you 'll write often and tell me about him ? ’ |
| 15 | So , I 'd an appointment in town at the hairdressers and for a legwax and that you do n't want to let yourself go I do n't want him to get back and catch me with my knickers down and my nail varnish all chipped … |
| 16 | I had suggested in the note that , as it was then three-fifteen , rather than their breaking camp , one of them should drive back and take me to where they were for the night and back to the village next morning . |