Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb past] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 2 | I all had hoped to be able to bring before you a final draft of th the service it has not yet finally been passed by the Presbyterian Church of Wales therefore , discussions on what form and how it will be printed have not yet taken place . |
| 3 | I only wanted to go to sleep . ’ |
| 4 | A physiotherapist said that she could not recall any aggravation at any level , and an occupational therapist said : ‘ It did n't matter what problems I had , I just had to go to them and they 'd say ‘ OK , there 's a way round it . ’ ’ |
| 5 | I just had to tend to him when it got too much for someone who is not that involved in drugs . |
| 6 | She had become obsessed with Eliot and his work at the age of fourteen , after she had heard a recording of " The Journey of the Magi " : " It was extraordinary , " she said later , " that I felt I just had to get to Tom , to work with him . " |
| 7 | I just had to write to you , to tell the Tennis World readers what a certain , beautiful lady has done for tennis and for her supporters . |
| 8 | After reading the letter from Audrey Haagensen in the September issue I felt I just had to write to you . |
| 9 | I just kept saying to her it could n't work . |
| 10 | I mean I can remember being underneath the platform , being on fire and I mean I I just kept saying to myself that this was n't really happening . |
| 11 | Mrs Murchie added : ’ I did not know what to do so I just kept talking to her until the ambulance arrived . |
| 12 | Erm , I I just hoped to dictate to you which would cover the changes of the research approval form |
| 13 | Takahashi is one of those people I loved on sight , or with whom I just wanted to go to bed , but denied myself the opportunity , thus leaving them forever desirable in my memory . |
| 14 | I just wanted to go to the bathroom . |
| 15 | I felt so tired I just wanted to go to sleep . |
| 16 | I just wanted to say to you , firstly I declare an interest in OxRad , not pecuniary , of course , with money , however , but it is on behalf of charities , it is the only way they can generally raise some two three hundred pounds in a day , or sometimes a little more , that is a tremendous help to charities . |
| 17 | Sorry , I just wanted to refer to page eighty-one , erm sixth form conference , thirty-three . |
| 18 | I just wanted to come to you , to make a little space around you , I do n't want to discuss anything , I do n't want to do anything , I wo n't say anything , I just wanted to be there , I mean here . ’ |
| 19 | I just wanted to get to Leicester Square . |
| 20 | He grew up in Rutland ( now Leicestershire ) and after collecting a photography ‘ O ’ level , went on to do a furniture design course , ‘ because I just wanted to get to London ’ . |
| 21 | He grew up in Rutland ( now Leicestershire ) and after collecting a photography ‘ O ’ level , went on to do a furniture design course , ‘ because I just wanted to get to London ’ . |
| 22 | I finally managed to get to where the directions led me . |
| 23 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 24 | I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels . |
| 25 | these caused an acute attack of what I once heard referred to as ‘ the wants ’ or , in this case , ‘ I want a fine gauge knitting machine ’ ! |
| 26 | If I ever got talking to some man in a pub , it was more than his life was worth . |
| 27 | In the middle of March , Vance made what he later called " one of the most distasteful recommendations I ever had to make to the president . " |
| 28 | Doc Paisley was the first man I ever heard preach to me directly that I was sinner , that God loved me and that Jesus died for me … |
| 29 | This was in front of the cameras , and I thought , ‘ You two-faced bitch ’ , because if I ever tried to talk to her she 'd either be sarcastic or looked through you , looked away or did n't want to know . |
| 30 | She was a desperately tiresome female , but I always felt constrained to be pleasant to her merely because she was so uninspiring . |