Example sentences of "and i [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always knew how much he earned , because he used to give me his pay note and I 'd to go down and collect it . |
| 2 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 3 | I du n no , I 'd quite like to stay watching the ducks , cos they 're pretty interesting , but I 'm too blummin cold for that and I got to get back home . |
| 4 | The last of their luggage was brought from the limousine and , as Thessy and I prepared to cast off , Rickie tested our sound system with a cacophonous cassette of rock music . |
| 5 | It was a little bit awkward , because she wanted to spend a long weekend there in July , and I had to sort out the dates with Alex to make sure they did n't clash . |
| 6 | How could I tell Fatima with her large , trusting brown eyes that her war had become stale news and I had to move on ? |
| 7 | The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action . |
| 8 | I thought I 'd seen something like it before but the woman came over and I had to move away before I could look at it more closely . |
| 9 | I lost my flat , and I had to move in with friends . |
| 10 | Well I went there and I had to fill in another application and they 've set me up with er another interview at erm Health Centre , and that 's tomorrow . |
| 11 | I speak from experience , as my wife and I had to turn back and miss the December 1990 meeting . |
| 12 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |
| 13 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 14 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 15 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 16 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 17 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |
| 18 | ‘ We saw it go in , ’ said Lyle , ‘ but we could not find it and I had to go back and play three off the tee . ’ |
| 19 | We came on a , I think it was on a Friday or Saturday morning and I had to go back Sunday night , cos I was on duty on the Monday back in Plymouth , and I did a month in Plymouth , er , a month or five weeks no longer , and I came up each weekend to see them , my wife was left there then . |
| 20 | And I had to go back to Norwich the next morning with a load . |
| 21 | I used to have to go back up , after the supper and give her the and I had to go back up and turn London 's Burning on then I used to have to go back up to turn it off |
| 22 | Ed and I had to go along with it , of course . |
| 23 | But I just used to have this dream , of all these animals , and I had to go in with all these animals , it was actually full , crammed full of animals , that were all out to eat me , and , kill me , |
| 24 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 25 | By some mix-up , my papers did n't seem to be in order and I had to hold on there until the proper American visa came through . |
| 26 | But the nurse could n't move it and I had to put up with it . |
| 27 | It was a bad moment and I had to put down a swift impulse to rush to the side and throw myself over . |
| 28 | And it was rough going , and I had to watch my head and I had to watch where I was putting my feet . |
| 29 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 30 | There was n't a working shower and I had to clean off my make-up with cold-cream and by splashing water from the sink over myself . |