Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's something about them that makes me want to see them glazed with passion — ’ |
| 2 | Something made me want to touch you . |
| 3 | It makes me want to kiss them . ’ |
| 4 | Ian is OK — friendly and cheerful — but there 's something about Robert that makes me want to fight him all the time . ’ |
| 5 | Me eat , me want to eat them |
| 6 | Mummy me want to eat them in the high chair |
| 7 | Mummy me want to eat them in that high chair , you staying out here ? |
| 8 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 9 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 10 | Before he went out , he made me promise to give you this . ’ |
| 11 | Then she made me promise to get them back to her in one piece within a week and sold me two tickets to a Ward Bond Retrospective at her film club in Ponder 's End . |
| 12 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 13 | They have asked me to write to congratulate you on this well deserved honour , and I am very pleased to do so . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's useless for me to try to answer you . ’ |
| 15 | Luckily they seemed to want , even need , to talk , so it was n't necessary for me to try to head him onto other subjects as I had felt might possibly have been the case . |
| 16 | It was stupid of me to try to marry you like that without explaining . |
| 17 | I told her that you had sent me to try to trap her into making unwary and unguarded statements and unwittingly to betray herself . |
| 18 | At this moment two people grabbed me to try to make me get up but I could not get up , so they kicked me and stamped all over me from head to toe . |
| 19 | They ( Barber ) asked me to come to see them if I was ever in Cornwall . |
| 20 | ‘ Then you would n't say no if I asked to take you in my arms under the pretext of inviting you to dance . ’ |
| 21 | I asked to see him , but they said no . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And the reason why I asked to see you rather than your superintendent was that you looked capable of rising above it . ’ |
| 23 | I asked to give him a lead . |
| 24 | I asked to meet her . |
| 25 | I asked to keep her talking , but I was thinking of the scribble on the photocopies I 'd found . |
| 26 | ‘ He 'd have done it willingly had I stopped to ask him , Bonnie , but I did n't . |
| 27 | ‘ Why on earth should I want to seduce you ? |
| 28 | Shall I I want to stir it . |
| 29 | To teach herself to handle thought , she made it a practise never to permit herself to touch a brush until she could answer these questions , in writing , in the fewest possible words : ‘ What attracted me to this subject ? ’ 'Why do I want to paint it ? ’ 'What is the thing I am trying to express ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Now what did I want to ask you … ? ’ |