Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [to-vb] you " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now suppose that you know I am behind the tree , you are expecting me to leap out , and I know you know all that : I can still ( maybe ) frighten you by leaping out , just by getting you to realize that I intend to frighten you . |
| 2 | This is to tell you that I hope to send you about 10 questionnaires on ELT dictionaries ( intermediate rather than advanced ) this week , for you and whoever else ( teachers or students — mixture if possible ) might be willing to fill them in . |
| 3 | ‘ T is true that I came to warn you , but also to beg you to take me with you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You will have guessed the first , ’ he resumed , masticating the thick coils of smoke , ‘ namely that I wished to inculcate you a little further in the understanding of my true nature , a little further but not too far — keep 'em guessing is my motto . |
| 5 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |
| 7 | " I 'm sorry , Ms. Easterbrook , that I had to ask you to come up before we were able to remove Dr. Lorrimer 's body . |
| 8 | When we met again at the funeral , I knew that I had to see you again soon . |
| 9 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 10 | I am sorry that I had to deceive you just now ; I am from the Military Police Special Investigation Branch . ’ |
| 11 | It was a moment when a stray thread of sledge-hammer sanity isolated itself and hit me , and I , in that scarce moment , knew that I had to protect you — from me ! ’ |
| 12 | All I knew , in the heat of that moment , was that I had to protect you from me , had to take heed of that barely grasped truth that I could n't perhaps take your virginity and then just walk away . ’ |
| 13 | So much , that I decided to draw you a piccy of your swish logo on our school 's Nimbus printer . |
| 14 | That I want to save you . |
| 15 | ‘ As long as you remember that I want to see you as little as possible . |
| 16 | Will you tell them that I want to take you ? " |
| 17 | There are of course some positive signs around but also a danger that I want to alert you to : a growth in what I will call ‘ designer caring ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's something very practical that I want to ask you , ’ he said gently . |
| 19 | Knowing you , Jesus , brings so much joy and hope into my life that I want to share you with everyone I meet , |
| 20 | It 's not that I want to offend you or anything , I … ’ |
| 21 | I 'm sorry I was so tiresomely upset just now , it 's just that I want to protect you . ’ |
| 22 | Then , in the same tone , in fact I decided that I want to marry you . |
| 23 | ‘ I think I said , in a lamentably floundering fashion , that I want to marry you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ There 's something that I want to show you . |
| 25 | Now before you go racing ahead there 's a couple of things that I need to tell you , so can I show you how to do the first one , and then you can race on with it . |
| 26 | ‘ Except that I seem to remember you telling me that you and Arnie do n't like to live in each other 's pockets . |
| 27 | ‘ Just that I seem to rub you up the wrong way ? |
| 28 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
| 29 | So that 's why I came home , not that I wanted to come you know , to give it up . |
| 30 | I 'm afraid , however , that I have to ask you not to bring anyone else with you ( I 'm not quite sure if you were intending to ) because it really would create problems . |