Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 2 | Cos I went to this kit car show and they had erm |
| 3 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 4 | But I felt such a twit , cos I said to this man I , I do n't know about you , but I ca n't get my money . |
| 5 | That was too bad cos I said to this bloke . |
| 6 | ‘ I confess that I have not addressed such a large gathering since I spoke to 40,000 Gujerati buffalo farmers in India in 1980 , and that was a rare experience . ’ |
| 7 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 8 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 9 | She has encouraged me to talk about what happened before I got to that stage , and to think about what might have led up to it . |
| 10 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |
| 11 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |
| 12 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
| 13 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 14 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 15 | I intend to make animal welfare one of my priorities in th United Kingdom presidency , as I made clear when I wrote to hon. Members on 27 February . |
| 16 | I can not give over any of the powers that I , as a Member of Parliament , elected by the citizens of Aldridge-Brownhills — and each of us elected by our respective constituents — was given when I came to this Parliament . |
| 17 | But when I came to this country … |
| 18 | I had no intention of marrying early when I came to this town . |
| 19 | You chose very well , I used to get really nervous when I came to Chinese restaurants , I never knew what to choose . |
| 20 | When I went to junior school it was half and half , white and Black kids ; the Black guys were really revered , and lots of the white boys would try to act Black , because they associated it with being hard or cool . |
| 21 | When I went to that stress management course we were told to use physical resources like deep breathing and actually making yourself sit down and making yourself go floppy . |
| 22 | When I went to that rodeo with Jerry and I was n't home until after midnight , Harry did n't even ask me why I was so late — and he knew the time because he 'd been down to see if Islay 's foal was better . |
| 23 | Well the thing is I ca n't handle rum cos when I went to that party Dan had |
| 24 | Yeah mm a bit like I say when I went to that dentist surgery at er Leicester |
| 25 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
| 26 | When I went to Bound Zoo I bought , this pencil , that 's twenty five p |
| 27 | When I referred to this restaurant of his , the Skein of Geese , her ears pricked up . |
| 28 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 29 | And er there r there are no real er gentry in Orkney you see , and you 'll always find that if anybody gets a a a Well as I said to one boy here , I said to him look here I said your old grandfather worked in that shop till his backside was hanging out his brigs . |
| 30 | Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me |