Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He stands in the doorway , forcing me to continue dripping in the hall , and says :
2 He makes me change , he makes me want to dance round him , bewilder him , dazzle him , dumbfound him .
3 Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him .
4 But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound .
5 Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen .
6 There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages .
7 And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and
8 Why do you always force me to go chasing after you ? ’
9 " It 's just that it 's all very well to talk about his responsibility and all that — nobody thinks how awful it would be for me to go crawling to him wailing , I 'm in tro-uble ?
10 Sometimes she would ask me to go blackberrying with her or , as she would say , to open a tin of tangerines with her .
11 A range of pine furniture ready for me to paint according to your needs .
12 He told me to try to go to Cookham Wood : in his words , ‘ There 's a better class of prisoner there .
13 ‘ Would you like me to try to get in touch with her ? ’
14 It was wrong of me to come running to you .
15 And at me let fly with a ringing broadside .
16 I put it down obediently although a childish urge in me wants to play with it as long as I like , just to prove that it does n't necessarily end up with me stupidly spearing myself .
17 As a newcomer to such work , I became involved through a meeting with Johanna Carrie .
18 From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings .
19 From this first experiment , I became fascinated with the problem of including lights in paintings .
20 As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd .
21 I became fascinated by the variety of ways .
22 I became fascinated by the variety of ways .
23 We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters .
24 To begin with I found the subject somewhat tedious , but as the weeks passed I became fascinated by how meticulously recording each transaction could prove to be so beneficial even to our little business .
25 Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism .
26 I became assimilated into the gay community and my identity as a Black person sloughed off me .
27 At the back , sometimes out of sight of the others , I became engrossed in my own problems .
28 ‘ It hit Britain in a big way in the mid 80s and I became engrossed in the game .
29 But little by little , as I became absorbed into rural life , I came to enjoy my ‘ inconveniences ’ .
30 He commented on his project : ‘ The more I explored , the more I became absorbed with the mystery of the environment .
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