Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [verb] i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I 'd like you to give me the answer to a question . ’ |
| 2 | " I 'd like you to give me the wedding-dress you got from the children . " |
| 3 | So although I did n't like him touching me the way he had , I decided not to tell anybody . |
| 4 | ‘ She was picking them up at random and saying things like , ‘ This boy 's in a wheelchair but that does n't stop him giving me the eye , ’ or , ‘ This is the college stud but he cuts no ice with me . ’ ’ |
| 5 | But thank can also be followed by the bare infinitive , as in the following examples , which Jespersen ( 1940 : 289 ) qualifies as " rather vulgar " : ( 200 ) I 'll thank ye hand me the salt . |
| 6 | If you refuse to co-operate I can force you to pay me the money you owe me . |
| 7 | It 's fucking madness , I 'll ge I mean it kills me the next day , it 's madness , I do n't know why I do it . |
| 8 | I ca n't recall who gave me the information . |
| 9 | And I would n't let him give me the strap then . |