Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 2 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 3 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |
| 4 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |
| 5 | On this bit there 's no pavement so I have to walk in the road . |
| 6 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
| 7 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 8 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to feed the ducks , and I want to play in the sandpit . |
| 10 | For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor . |
| 11 | I mean , now I 've got several hundred pounds resting on it if I have to walk in the last few miles I will , but er pride I 'm sure I 'll keep going . |
| 12 | Well I think so cos I have to write in the book , I have to put myself ! |
| 13 | But I had to go in the loft . |
| 14 | I 've got a couple of erm , really going to be specific to do essay writing , but I need to get in the subjects in . |
| 15 | I was munching a meat pie and reading an early edition of the Standard when I saw them and then only because I happened to glance in the mirror . |
| 16 | He likes to arrive with all the razzmatazz , while I prefer to slip in the back door quietly . |
| 17 | ‘ I like the freedom of being able to decide , tonight for example , whether I want to stay in the flat or whether I want to go down to Gloucestershire . |
| 18 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 19 | When I went to live in the attic , Jean-Claude still took it for granted that the wood he needed for the stove should be filched from the railway sidings . |
| 20 | When I attempted to feed in the information on Wayne Campbell the computer exploded . |
| 21 | Then I wanted to join the army and that was another two months of warfare , and then when I wanted to go in the police force my parents said , ‘ You 're trying to tell us something about your attitude to school , are n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | Next morning , as I went to take in the milk , Mrs Rankin , our Burnfoot Avenue landlady greeted me . |
| 23 | But , as novelists are well aware , it is true , as I hope to show in the final chapter , that houses have an autonomous being of their own : ‘ I 've no control over the saucy things , ’ Margaret Schlegel complains in Howards End , ‘ Houses are alive . ’ |
| 24 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 25 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |