Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Robert Upshall said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |
| 2 | Election candidates in Darlington have failed to meet the Green challenge , according to Dr Robert Upshall , who said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three main candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |
| 3 | ‘ Everyone tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . ’ |
| 4 | EVERYONE tried to dress it up as a love match but it was n't . |
| 5 | Someone got to have it . |
| 6 | I lived to regret it . |
| 7 | ‘ I tell you , Charles , it was only after I heard that they 'd signed up Micky Banks that I agreed to do it . |
| 8 | But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands . |
| 9 | I was determined , so I agreed to pay it back every week . |
| 10 | While I was testing the Seayak on the west coast of Ireland I failed to pull it far enough up the beach on the night of a rising spring tide . |
| 11 | They caught the sparks that showered from my own tiny anvil and I failed to think it odd . |
| 12 | I planned to do it alone in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | I was bitterly ashamed of what I was doing , or letting people do to me , but also of course I got to like it , and even crave it , in a manner of speaking . |
| 14 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 15 | No I ge , I got to see it |
| 16 | I got to whisk it , whisk it |
| 17 | I got to know it pretty well when I was living in Sheffield and I 'd recommend anyone to take a walking holiday there . |
| 18 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 19 | ‘ If I got to have it done , I 'll go back to the place I was before , back down the Duke 's Ferry Road . |
| 20 | No , cos I got to show it and I ca n't |
| 21 | I got to bring it up cos Bet likes |
| 22 | But the farm , the Belle-Etoile , was not where I expected to find it . |
| 23 | I expected to hate it , but in fact I enjoyed my lectures on English language history and became an enthusiastic advocate of exercises in parsing , syntax and dictation — the very best test of listening comprehension . |
| 24 | While the leg craved attention , I strained to forget it , even using rubbish as a distraction . |
| 25 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 26 | People would look at me and think , ‘ No , she 's not the type , she would never try to top herself ’ , but I tried to do it when I was in Cookham Wood . |
| 27 | They asked me why I tried to do it — whether I was attention-seeking ! |
| 28 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 29 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 30 | I tried to do it really well because it was my last grade . |