Example sentences of "i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | He made me expose my bottom to him and he whipped me . |
2 | ‘ No , no , let me answer that , Peregrine . ’ |
3 | Let me answer the second question first . |
4 | ( Let me answer my own question . |
5 | ‘ But when they ask questions , let me answer , sir . |
6 | Let me answer , at least this one unasked question . |
7 | but I I 'm sorry b if you would let me answer . |
8 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
9 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
10 | He seemed to have forgotten about only letting me loose on water . |
11 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
12 | I 'll recruit somebody to help me service my client bank , because it 's better to have fifty percent of something than fifty percent of nothing . |
13 | It certainly makes me regard the next car commercial with a new pair of eyes . |
14 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
15 | ‘ Peter Seabrook helped me build the pond on the programme , ’ he pointed out . |
16 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
17 | In this programme I 'm going to sketch in a bit of the background , by way of introduction , and in later weeks , various colleagues of mine , concerned with all aspects of the computing world , will be helping me build up the over-all picture . |
18 | You want to plant them , you can help me plant them cos you 'll be around |
19 | Watching me wind two strands together on the cone winder he exclaimed ‘ Ah , now I know what ‘ k 2 tog ’ means ! ’ |
20 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
21 | If Mr Jackson sees me all grown up , then maybe he 'll let me stay here . |
22 | Christopher , please let me stay . ’ |
23 | ‘ At least let me stay here for a while until I get my head clear . ’ |
24 | Would not let me stay here … |
25 | ‘ Then let me stay . ’ |
26 | The Miss Cardings next door , they would have let me stay there until I got myself sorted out . |
27 | Or when Tom says , ‘ My teacher made me stay in today ’ , parents would do well to resist the temptation to answer , ‘ Now what have you done ? ’ , or ‘ I suppose you deserved it ’ , replies which would have inflamed his feelings . |
28 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
29 | ‘ Do you think that she 'll let me stay for good ? |
30 | Would you let me stay with you then ? ’ |