Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] to come [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , my parents live in Kenya and I was going to study in Nairobi , but Moi has suspended the classes at the university for this year , so I applied to come here . ’ |
| 3 | ’ And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back . |
| 4 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 5 | I almost caused an accident coming back from Bedford yesterday , there 's somebody in an X R three i right up my arse so I just coming onto the motorway , the M four to Bracknell and erm comes right up my arse and I had to come out cos there was this car coming on you know , from further up the the lane and it was coming on and I was already on , so I overtook it let it did to let it come out you know ? |
| 6 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 7 | and he was playing computer with me and I meant to come up to you . |
| 8 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 9 | ‘ Do you know why Heinrich and I wanted to come back here ? ’ |
| 10 | I know that if I wanted to come back here this is the time that I could do so . |
| 11 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 12 | To make sure that he has n't just come home I telephoned twice this afternoon , and again just before I left to come here . |