Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pledge to recycle as much waste as possible at home and/or I pledge to help organise recycling at work or at school/college . |
| 2 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 3 | I had not kept my old key , because I had hoped that my association with Cutwater Charters was done , so I was forced to carry my heavy pack into the tangle of dark alleys that lay behind the straw market and where I planned to find Ellen and borrow her key . |
| 4 | Later he asked , at second-hand , if he could accompany me into the Danakil country , where I planned to travel . |
| 5 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 6 | But I am due to take a trip to the Indian Ocean shortly where I hope to go swimming in a warmer sea ! |
| 7 | The current carry me where I chose to go . |
| 8 | I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt . |
| 9 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 10 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 11 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 13 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 14 | There is an unutterable sadness around Medina del Campo , where I had to change trains for Salamanca . |
| 15 | It took her a while to understand what I wanted and where I wanted to go . |
| 16 | ‘ There was a scene where I wanted to keep my clothes on and I told Adrian ‘ They do n't have to see my breasts in every shot , do they ? ’ |
| 17 | The compass could tell me in which direction I had to go — it could n't tell me what lay between where I was , and where I wanted to get to . |
| 18 | And where I learned to speak ? |
| 19 | ‘ I have made up my own mind where I want to go and I spoke to Frank Clark this morning the first time for a fortnight . |
| 20 | Every summer a butterfly settles there precisely where I want to sit , always in the same place . |
| 21 | ‘ Just point me where I have to go . |
| 22 | Where I have to take issue with the LTA , however , is over its decision to increase prize money for 1992 by 20 per cent from $500,000 to $600,000 , which will be exactly double the minimum requirement from tournaments in the same category on the ATP Tour , for 1993 . |
| 23 | Mafe , 25 , who won world gold with the Great Britain 4x400m relay team , said : ‘ I 've reached the point in my life where I have to start earning money . |
| 24 | [ But ] I do n't want an agreement where I have to apply to court to get them out . |
| 25 | Either therefore I am being non-cooperative or I intend to convey something rather different : ( 34 ) Queen Victoria was made of iron The straightforward interpretation is that since Queen Victoria in fact lacked the definitional properties of iron , she merely had some of the incidental properties like hardness , resilience , non-flexibility or durability . |
| 26 | He will recall that dealing with NIE and trying to bring electricity to Rathlin was not one of the easiest tasks that he or I had to undertake . |
| 27 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 28 | Erm so we wish to thank them all , or I wish to thank them all very much for all their hard work and support they 've given me . |
| 29 | If er Mr or I wish to ask questions on the original proof or about what what the witness is telling you , . |
| 30 | Now I feel so embarrassed and wish I did n't have breasts at all , or I try to hide them with baggy T-shirts . |