Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women tend to talk about real things , whereas Nigel and I like to sit in a restaurant retelling old stories . |
| 2 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 3 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I walked in and there were twelve fellas sitting in this room and I had to sing in front of them all . |
| 5 | ‘ What happened was this : a dog ran out in front of me as I was leaving the car park , and I had to swerve in order to avoid it . |
| 6 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 7 | With her penetrating instinct she did not like him , and was so angry with me for , as she said , ‘ wasting myself upon such rubbish ’ , that in the end she turned me out of my room and I went to live in a tiny , freezing attic in a house in Morningside Crescent owned by a friend of hers , a white woman . |
| 8 | no , no , I was giving you an example to what would happen on the time scale , but let me go back to January nineteen eighty seven , if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven if the brochure was printed in January nineteen eighty seven and I went to buy in March , April , May nineteen eighty eight , the figures in the service charges would be out of date |
| 9 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 10 | As she and one other laid their hands on me , I leant on their faith , and I began to speak in a new language words of praise to God . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to feed the ducks , and I want to play in the sandpit . |
| 12 | He says I grew up here , I went to school and I want to stay in this area . |
| 13 | And I want to eat well and I want to be comfortable and I want to stay in good hotel |
| 14 | ‘ I am composing a poem , which begins : ‘ Sir Walter Scott , Ought to be shot … ’ and I want to work in something about hits and arrow slits , but I 'm not ingenious enough . ’ |
| 15 | A batteur de mesure … is in my opinion the most essential artist at the Opera ; the entire fate of the theatrical performance rests in his hands , and I have to say in all truth that citoyen Rey is beyond all praise in this regard . |
| 16 | It 's not just an event in history two thousand years ago , something that happened way back i in a back water of the Roman empire , that 's not the really important issue for you and for me today it 's , the important thing is that you and I have to stand in that same place that Pilate stood and we have to make that same decision , what will I do then with Jesus that is called the Christ ? |
| 17 | And I have to believe in that ‘ might ’ . |
| 18 | You may depend if an opportunity should occur I will not fail to send a letter and I have to request in a [ letter torn ] fervor that you will post a letter to me at least once a week commencing from Monday next , with all particulars respecting your health etc etc directing them P. Office Launceston until called for , and when I again reach this place I will write immediately . |
| 19 | ‘ — and I wanted to get in touch with them , anyway , and … well … ’ |
| 20 | For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor . |
| 21 | You had to hop to it — it was considered to be a privilege from the sergeant and you had to go in here and strip down , and scrub windows and that sort of thing . |
| 22 | Oh goodness , yes for the damage and you had to go in front of the Harbourmaster . |
| 23 | Similarly , remind yourself that even if the worst comes to the worst and you need to go in the middle of the interview it is no big deal although it feels like a disaster to you . |
| 24 | The transitions may involve too many changes at one time , and you need to build in some more intermediate steps . |
| 25 | Charges £21 for a one-hour float , or £48 for three floats , as an introductory offer , and you need to book in advance . |
| 26 | The Race Relations Act says that you can do this you can have courses especially for black or Asian people so as I said you have to be unemployed you have to be black or Asian and you have to live in either Radford Hyson Green St Annes Lenton or Snainton . |
| 27 | In any case , the logic of the government 's case is to say that if you are a person on low income , dependent on council housing , and you happen to live in area like Oxford , which has extremely high land values , then you should pay a very high rent , and they assume that they will pay that high rent and they reduce the grant to the housing fund erm on those lines , with the consequence that the Council had no choice but to put the rents up . |
| 28 | A friend of mine did it erm they did n't burn the erm the spirit when they 'd finished and erm you know you 're meant to actually put a piece of paper under and burn it under the light or smash the glass and erm for the next six months she could n't sleep properly and it felt like there , she was like tormented and erm things were like pulling at her , her bedclothes and I swear she 's like seeing a psy a psychia psychiatrist and she had to sleep in her parents ' room and everything really scary . |
| 29 | And she had to come in the car while I |
| 30 | For a time it overcame her , and she seemed to drift in black depths . |