Example sentences of "[vb base] i [verb] [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make me understand why you 're willing to take such a risk for the sake of a story . ’ |
| 2 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 3 | And erm but I mean I remember when I I was doing er work with the Open University now I was a sort of er tutor with them or counsellor with them and I think we used to say ten to fifteen hours work a week |
| 4 | That really turned my stomach , even if , I mean I remember when I was carrying , when I was carrying the twins , and he used to go out huge things you know , and so much so that if he came home in the night , right , and I was already in bed asleep , I would be able to er , he would wake me in the bedroom cos I could smell smoke on him , but he did n't smoke , but where he 'd been the pub or a night club , I smelt |
| 5 | I mean I remember when I went , first went to my cheap caravan site where there is n't a toilet and you have to walk to the toilets , and I remember a couple of times when I was little , shitting my pants on the way to the toilets , you know , cos I could n't hold it in . |
| 6 | I mean I remember when I was at the New York Times and I wanted to use Cheltenham wide for a headline , Cheltenham bold well sort of bold wide , but it 's just called Cheltenham wide in the book , and because Cheltenham was always part of the New York Times library , whatever you call it , in the composing room . |
| 7 | I mean I know when we moved house I had folder and one of each had got in it the recycling directory |
| 8 | Well yeah but I mean I 've like you know ones and two and that into it . |
| 9 | I mean I 've actually I tried to persuade a colleague of mine that I could quite easily sexually harass a male student of mine , and the reason I could do that , or the way I could do that , is because I have power over him . |
| 10 | I mean I had so I it did help . |
| 11 | times of I mean , I actually think it 's a an awful lot of ask of a friendship , or of a family situation and also , indeed , if you I mean I think sometimes they can be very supportive but th the true understanding may not be there and erm I think that 's what led me to start up a self- help group in Edinburgh erm which is , has been erm running for the last two years now . |
| 12 | Cos I mean I do n't they wan na be cut out or anything like that . |
| 13 | I mean I do n't I try to not to take a lot of notice of it you |
| 14 | Well I did n't tell him it he can wind it just erase it I mean I do n't I said I 'm alright love just to do all that , I 've got twenty tapes ! |
| 15 | Well I , yeah I do I mean I do n't I do n't need them just yet , I mean I think I sha n't need to get them till we come back from the trip . |
| 16 | She said quietly , ‘ If you want me to explain why my mother acted as she did , madame , I ca n't . |
| 17 | You dump it in there and then you suddenly expect me to know where it all is and I do n't . |
| 18 | Someone gives you with something to integrate and they say I started off I differentiated something |
| 19 | As I say I did n't I thought the girls was plus that fact it was a lot of concentration for the spooling . |
| 20 | Let me spell out what the commission 's report is supposed to do . |
| 21 | Right er let me explain briefly what 's going on . |
| 22 | ‘ First let me explain why I have to go to Athens . |
| 23 | But first of all let me explain how we come to agree the number of booklets on the and the individual financial target per assignment . |
| 24 | ‘ OK , sir , ’ replied the boy , ‘ if you let me telephone home my mother will fax it to you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ She calmed him down and said : ‘ If you let me go outside I 'll get the keys ’ . |
| 26 | Let me describe how it was , exactly . |
| 27 | ‘ Let me top up your glass . ’ |
| 28 | Rumours will no doubt circulate throughout the town and , as a figure of authority within the club , I am sure the artisans on the terraces will side with Reg , but let me put forward my reason for sacking him . |
| 29 | ( 64 ) Let me hear now who dares call him profligate . |
| 30 | But let me say immediately I do not have Miss Kenton in mind at all when I say this . |