Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i [be] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shouted that I was going to call the police . ’ |
| 2 | Years later when I saw John Sayers of West New Houses for the last time before he unfortunately died , I mentioned that I was planning to start riding my bike again , and he was most amused . |
| 3 | I found that I was trying to achieve two somewhat incompatible objectives . |
| 4 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
| 5 | I tried to turn in behind him but found that I was going to overshoot and pulled away to starboard . |
| 6 | I realized that I was having to struggle not to be nice to him . |
| 7 | At the end of November 1983 , I announced that I was going to head an inquiry into occupational pensions . |
| 8 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |
| 9 | told that I was trying to get an appointment at the asthma clinic but they could n't get one for fortn another full week . |
| 10 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |
| 11 | " My dishevelled appearance is due entirely to Miss Topaz Chilcott , who imagined that I was going to have my wicked way with her . |
| 12 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 13 | I had long wanted to visit St Kilda , and the opportunity of at least seeing the islands came when I was invited to join a National Trust cruise as a lecturer and sort of — ‘ general helper ’ . |
| 14 | As it was , most people laughed , one bright spark asked if I was going to sell him something and a female student in a park scarf accused me of being a pervert . |
| 15 | It was in April when we arrived and I was invited to join branch members in the Anzac Day Parade in Adelaide . |
| 16 | While I was at Fender I decided that I was going to start my own company , and in 1983 went ahead with Metaltronix . |
| 17 | Once I dreamed that I was asked to contribute to the soundtrack album of a film called Honeymoon In Vegas , featuring a selection of Elvis Presley songs performed by a variety of artists . |
| 18 | I saw that I was going to have to find a job before I did something rash which landed me in prison . |
| 19 | ‘ You knew that I was going to break off the engagement anyway , so it 's not exactly the end of the world for me . |
| 20 | He thought that I was trying to provoke him . |
| 21 | The man standing behind her spoke as I was turning to walk away . |
| 22 | I said that I was going to take you away to Arrancay with me — and keep you there away from all the bitterness and the lies . |
| 23 | ‘ You must need your head tested ’ , was one of the more polite reactions when I said that I was going to spend two weeks holiday walking some 120 miles up-and-down mountains rather than lying in the sun . |
| 24 | The House will expect me to apologise again for the remarks that I injudiciously made when I was trying to illustrate a simple point — that , with the private sector providing more rail services in future , I hope that a range of choice will be available to the travelling public in terms of price and time of day , rather like that provided by the airlines and the long-distance coach market . |
| 25 | I supposed that I was trying to catch my wave as well . |
| 26 | I explained that I was trying to understand the part tears play in our lives . |
| 27 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 28 | When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished . |
| 29 | I wondered if I was going to get a word in edgeways some time . |
| 30 | In fact I considered if I was going to die it might as well be in my own quarters . |