Example sentences of "i [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we landed at Bombay ( for the story has a happy ending ) I asked to be shown the piece of tarmac pasteurised for the Pope to kiss on his recent visit , so I could bless it too ( poojahs is the Hindi word ) and give thanks for deliverance . |
| 2 | I asked to be provided with a car and an interpreter/guide . |
| 3 | But being me I could n't stand that very long , may be two or three months , and I asked to be moved . |
| 4 | When I was alone with the General I asked to be transferred . |
| 5 | A week later back in Vancouver , when Canada joined Britain in the war against Germany and Italy , I applied to the RCAF recruiting office for a commission , in view of my earlier flying experience . |
| 6 | I applied to correspondence courses for writing , I joined a music workshop , and at the same time I had to rush into a job , as I came over with just one bag and no money . ’ |
| 7 | As I have to be in London for the entire week of the General Election , I applied to Darlington Town Hall for a postal vote . |
| 8 | I doubled to the other side of the deck and joined the Sergeant Major and Brigadier Mills Roberts . |
| 9 | It was only to Pam that I admitted to feeling guilty and ashamed of the wave of relief I felt at her funeral , as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders . |
| 10 | And I admitted to myself that I was an alcoholic and I had a problem with prescription pills , and in order to survive — in order to live — had to change that . |
| 11 | And , I admitted to myself , she would have been absolutely right . |
| 12 | No I did it to Marks ' then blamed it on Cherubs and Cherub come over and did it to Marks ' and I admitted to it , or so or |
| 13 | So I clung to the concept of ideal love for you , at the same time hoping for the even more impossibly ideal physical fulfilment and completion that would seal our closeness for ever . |
| 14 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 15 | I clung to the door , my hands fisted round the useless handle . |
| 16 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
| 17 | The next time I reached a lamp-post I clung to it . |
| 18 | I clung to her and tried to keep my nails from digging into her arm . |
| 19 | Unresolved , I clung to the nub of " I " , perhaps sensing that I needed " I " if was ever to hurtle to freedom . |
| 20 | We rolled heavily as I clung to the shrouds scanning the reef as best I could . |
| 21 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 22 | That made me feel a bit better , so I tottered to the top of the hill and stared bleakly around , in the equally bleak daylight . |
| 23 | Having just finished a talk to a class of candidates for the ministry in a major denomination I was ‘ verbally assaulted ’ by the principal of the theological college concerned who picked up on a brief reference I made to Creation and Evolution and proceeded to state in the strongest possible terms that many true Christians believe in the theory of evolution and reject the biblical account of a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis . |
| 24 | ‘ And she has made the same promise to me that I made to my mum and dad . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If you will only accept the offer of payment I made to you earlier , then the rest of the debt will be paid very shortly . ’ |
| 26 | the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all . |
| 27 | The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 . |
| 28 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 29 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that during a recent visit I made to Albania on behalf of the Council of Europe , politicians of all parties expressed a keen interest in receiving British know-how , but were disappointed that we have yet to establish a British embassy in Tirane ? |