Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | and has only offered to buy me one beer so far . |
| 2 | Herman S. has just telephoned to ask me to go to the theatre with Ivy and him next Thursday — to see Samuel Beckett 's new play . |
| 3 | He has just offered to give me a good rogering . |
| 4 | ‘ In the meantime , Malachi here has kindly offered to drive me in his own trap anywhere I wish to go . ’ |
| 5 | For one thing , Rose has kindly offered to help me find a place . ’ |
| 6 | As I say , nowadays I get the information from you over the phone , and then when we 've got somebody who said Oh no , it 's only a small flat , I 've got this this and this and that 's the big pieces of furniture , er if it 's somebody that 's done it on spec I say Well look give me a ring back in an hour if er when you 've come off the phone you er there 's something you 've forgotten . |
| 7 | Our situation is pressing and my father has therefore decided to let me go alone . |
| 8 | I can not bear this obscene , grubbing curiosity about the affairs of others , it has never failed to repel me . |
| 9 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 10 | As for you , you 'd better come to see me this afternoon . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd better have beaten me . ’ |
| 12 | Dear Rothenstein , Now that the Mexican president has provided you with the beak and talons of an Aztec eagle you may perhaps feel better equipped to face me in open contest . |
| 13 | I did n't think you even liked me very much at the moment , let alone … let alone cared sufficiently to want to marry me … ’ |
| 14 | I decided that they simply would n't have understood why I 'd done this and would now feel too hurt and abused ever to want to see me again . |
| 15 | Coming home 's taught me that . |
| 16 | I used to babysit before but for older ones , and coming here 's got me more used to younger babies . |
| 17 | But coming here has made me realize how much time has passed since , as a small boy , we used to set off for dinners and functions . |
| 18 | Oh yeah I think , think just finished meeting me and they 're . |
| 19 | A SHE reader did once attempt to send me a sample of her fluid , but most unfortunately the bottle broke in the post with disastrous results ! |
| 20 | She did once promise to leave me something — can I get hold of her will ? |
| 21 | Yeah but I did still did see I do I wan na do a blue |
| 22 | I 'd be grateful if you 'd think about my offer seriously and — ’ dark brown eyes snared hers ‘ — remember that nothing less than winning ever did satisfy me . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Pye eventually agreed to lease me a small factory in Watford , in which I set up my new company . |
| 25 | Always before he had only had to touch me for me to be ready for the final act which we 'd always denied ourselves ; there was no reason to suppose that would n't happen again . |
| 26 | I could see his friends grinning among themselves ; probably there were more who had better cause to remember me . |
| 27 | He began to stammer something about a mistake being made … that he had merely come to ask me to leave his boy alone … leave his boy alone … what a bloody liar . |
| 28 | Gharr had already tried to get me out of the way — probably thinking that Mala would collect it and her too . |
| 29 | You 've just got to tell me . |
| 30 | You 've just got to tell me . ’ |