Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Rifkind did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally at the House of Commons … |
| 2 | It was not that I was so self-blind that I saw nothing to be learnt . |
| 3 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 4 | My regard for her was reflected in the fact that I asked her to be my son , Giles 's godmother . |
| 5 | I made sure that I enjoyed it to the full , although it was wartime . |
| 6 | I seem to remember that I unburdened myself to you , a while back . ’ |
| 7 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 8 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 9 | I felt that I needed someone to be with me all day and all night . |
| 10 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 11 | Not that I wanted you to be my lover . |
| 12 | I gave him a draft of the first chapter and explained that I wanted it to be the sort of book that would sell in airport book stalls . |
| 13 | In the third place , you may recall that I escorted you to your room at half-past twelve ; but the college gates are locked at midnight , from which it follows that I would have had to rouse the duty porter in order both to be let out and to be let in again , something he will most certainly confirm I did not do . |
| 14 | He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff … |
| 15 | I 've been lucky : Scathach has returned only four years older than I expected him to be . ’ |
| 16 | was more valuable than I expected it to be ; |
| 17 | So I do n't know about anybody else but that 's cheaper than I expected it to be . |
| 18 | He said the idea of a single currency was ‘ even less realistic than I believed it to be nine months ago ’ . |
| 19 | It came out more vehemently than I meant it to . |
| 20 | I admit that I 'm as much to blame , I should have come to visit her , but I understood her mother was never off the doorstep , so I left her to it . |
| 21 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 22 | The males started fighting , so I moved one to another tank , leaving two females with one male . |
| 23 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |
| 24 | I thought this was odd so I mentioned it to my bank , who were seriously unimpressed . |
| 25 | That means he thought Maureen was his mother , so I gave him to her . |
| 26 | There 's at least one track from all eight albums , and two tracks are from a live album , so I gave it to a wonderful guy called Jonathan Downs from the Fan Club , who knows an awful lot that I 'd forgotten myself , or never even knew ! |
| 27 | but I persuaded him that it would melt while he had his drink and to put it in my bag and er it was lunchtime when we got home and we were going some I , I ca n't remember what we were doing afterwards so I gave it to his mother , I thought she could share it . |
| 28 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 29 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 30 | Well phoned me about and I passed it to you |