Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [conj] i [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 2 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |
| 3 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 4 | Lathered up , started to shave when I come to clean it there were n't a bloody blade in the bastards had pinched it . |
| 5 | But we got talking when I had to spend an afternoon in his laboratory checking reports for courts with his staff , and he was ever so nice . |
| 6 | But I liked serving and I liked to feel that I was able to have sold somebody something . |
| 7 | Well I did stop because I tried to avoid him . |
| 8 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |
| 9 | My poor old feet did suffer and I had to have them sorted out not so long ago . |
| 10 | I asked , as the rain had stopped and I wished to see more of Killala Bay . |
| 11 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 12 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 13 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 14 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 15 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 16 | It was actually obvious that a burglary had occurred but I refused to take it in . |
| 17 | It was only after she had gone that I started to ponder why she had confided so much in me . |
| 18 | ‘ Mary wanted to know if I planned to marry you . |
| 19 | ‘ The first thing I wanted to do when I learned to play the guitar was to play just like the Banshees ’ guitarists , ’ recalls Debbie , having moved on to her second pint of Ireland 's finest . |
| 20 | Yes and then er I wanted to change and I wanted to do private nursing |