Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | None of the women in the school kitchen where I worked went to union meetings . |
| 3 | [ But ] I do n't want an agreement where I have to apply to court to get them out . |
| 4 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't had time to meet everyone yet although I 've spoken to Mr Patel across the landing . ’ |
| 6 | Although I have to admit to buying Sat , Sun , Mon cause it does have a good sports section — especially the cricket . |
| 7 | Although I have mentioned to Kate of my association with Fiona , the two have never met . |
| 8 | Although I do admit to owning a bathrobe with my initials on it — and wearing green glasses for occasions when I want to draw attention to myself . |
| 9 | Granda 's fondness for alcohol is one of the reasons why I have never touched it in my life … although I do admit to having some rum sauce once . |
| 10 | But really I do n't think so , although I did speak to the Reading manager Ian Porterfield a few minutes ago and he does seem relaxed and so do his players , so you know I am a little worried now , now we 're getting nearer kick-off I 'm beginning to get a little more worried . |
| 11 | You deprived me of the chance to be there for him , and for my mother , when he was dying , because there were n't any jobs going in radio in Johannesburg at the time , so I had to go to Durban . |
| 12 | I do n't want you to be lonely so I 've spoken to Mrs Scott Wilson . |
| 13 | I waited for her to say something else , but she did n't , so I asked to speak to Toby . |
| 14 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |
| 15 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 16 | I heard that an English scientist had done some useful work , so I decided to go to England . |
| 17 | One day in January I had a free afternoon , as Adèle was ill , so I decided to walk to Hay , a village two miles away , to post a letter for the housekeeper . |
| 18 | Most of the materials sent from home were actually from England , so I started to write to everyone there . |
| 19 | I speak English , French and Spanish but not the others mentioned , so I have had to be very open to inferring sociolinguistic information and to being wary of my own assumptions . |
| 20 | I tell him I am a writer and that I was robbed in Cuzco Airport and lost camera , films and all my writing , so I have come to a tranquil place to try to remember . |
| 21 | Dry batteries for fencer units are outrageously expensive , so I have resorted to an old tractor battery , trickle-charged by a windmill made from a bicycle wheel with its dynamo hub : it cost nothing and worked without trouble for a year at a stretch . |
| 22 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 23 | Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd . |
| 24 | ‘ I could have got her to believe that , if I 'd wanted to . ’ |
| 25 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 26 | I could have jumped up and battered his foot if I 'd wanted to , but I had more respect than that ! ’ |
| 27 | I could n't have avoided it if I 'd wanted to . |
| 28 | I could still have easily called in if I 'd wanted to but I saw something advertised in a village saw the board took the number down and phoned them up . |
| 29 | I could have told you if I 'd wanted to . |
| 30 | If I 'd gone to the rank inside , it would have been the railway police 's case . |