Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often I stay longer in the shop than I mean to because it smells so good . |
| 2 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 3 | I had to as it 's very difficult to throw up decently when you 're upside down . |
| 4 | It impelled me to request Eliot , for the first time of more times than I care to remember-as it was a chore which I have been obliged to shoulder often enough myself-to act as a referee . |
| 5 | put this program in and you swap it for this er map disk , then it comes up , you tell it where you are , where you going to and it works your route out |
| 6 | BELVILLE : I have no reason to be ashamed of that duel you refer to since it was to save a friend , but suffer not your tongue to take too great a liberty with my Pamela . |
| 7 | Make them to whatever width you care to but it is advisable to divide the desired throw-over width into suitable panels , rather than to find it too narrow and have to add little strips to either side . |
| 8 | There 's the quiff from Peter , which is pointing out that the letter of confirmation that we reference to because it was a repeat , so reasonably enough they 're not going through all the assumptions , and he also is saying that the er , letters of confirmation that is a repeat of the previous job . |
| 9 | He decided to while it away in the station cafeteria and was already on his third cup of coffee when the train 's approach was announced over the Tannoy . |