Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 2 | Although I wanted to go down the pit because you got more money you see . |
| 3 | Although I wanted to rush back upstairs and read the letter straight away I decided to hold onto it and read it later . |
| 4 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 5 | The one good thing was that I began to get on much better with my children . |
| 6 | He was so stiff , so shocked , that I had to go on . |
| 7 | So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed . |
| 8 | It was n't a very full list cos erm er it did n't occur to me until about seven o'clock this evening that I had to go out quite soon and then I just ran around frantically doing things . |
| 9 | Because my experience was not of being poor , the discomforts of the poverty that I had to put up with in the rue Victorie did not suggest themselves as unending . |
| 10 | ‘ As the full-time mother of pre-school twins , I just thought that I had to put up with Sam 's barely concealed fling with a neighbour , ’ says Tina . |
| 11 | The threat of unemployment , even for apparently ‘ qualified ’ people , was such that I had to cast round desperately for a job . |
| 12 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 13 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 14 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 15 | I told myself that I had to face up to things ; John might have forgotten me , he might have been changed beyond recognition by his experiences ; he would not want me to mope . |
| 16 | With that my respondent turned and attacked the ice with such ferocity that I had to step back to avoid the avalanche of detritus . |
| 17 | He started knocking me about and telling me that I had to bring in this or that amount of money . |
| 18 | He produced the paper after supper , and dictated an absurd letter that I had to write out . |
| 19 | I must say that it sheds some light on the state of some of the aircraft that I had to fly in then . |
| 20 | There is so much energy and life in this recording , so much infectious enthusiasm , that I had to get up and do something . |
| 21 | An anonymous teacher writing in Time Out said : ‘ I decided that I had to get out of teaching when , walking down the corridor , I heard myself screaming ‘ Tie ! ’ ’ at some kid I did n't even know . |
| 22 | It was a lovely shop , bought it up here up But , me brother left the brew left the pub and er it meant that I had to get out you know . |
| 23 | It was only because they were short-handed that I agreed to help out and … ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The , the present , the present day er in Edinburgh , the present day buildings that I helped to build up are now in Pilton and in fact er out in Saint I built , that was a er built a fact I did all the rough . |
| 26 | It was around this point , in the midst of dealing with the many demands being made on my attention , that I happened to glance out of a window and spotted the figure of the young Mr Cardinal taking some fresh air around the grounds . |
| 27 | Having set the scene , it was about 2 years ago whilst I was being taken for a walk through the village by our springer dog , that I happened to meet up with the Church Warden who , after passing the time of day suddenly said ‘ Ah Bob , you do a bit of woodwork , do n't you ? |
| 28 | Brian arrived , with his girlfriend and another friend , who seemed to realize that I needed to calm down and offered to walk around the building with me . |
| 29 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 30 | Erm the other one , that I wanted to bring up in this , the reason I suppose , the second one to remember , is the idea of satire . |