Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't allow me to sit where I chose . |
| 2 | Mr McCloy gave me a free hand to go where I chose , bar the two big outhouses . |
| 3 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 4 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 5 | Sooner or later I would have to accept that I needed to look elsewhere . |
| 6 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 7 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 8 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 9 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 10 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 11 | When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple . |
| 12 | They were trying to insinuate that I belonged with the psychiatric patients . |
| 13 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 14 | She agreed to come and I took her first to the more brilliantly decorated one , not knowing that she was not only a very religious woman but also a girl who had been brought up in the strictest kind of convent — no heating , nothing for show . |
| 15 | Not just on my own he just said that , it was a bit bad cos I , I said to him , you know , who 's going and he listed like er reeled off , I ca n't remember , reeled off a load of blokes yes last night and I said are there any girls going and he said well I 'll see if I can get Laura and Giles to come and I said yeah I feel much better about that , you know , whatever and then today he said erm look ca n't go and was a real , I du n no he 's got something and he 's usually like the real medium and he , you know , if there 's e if there 's ever like a pregnant pause then he 's the one that like keeps it all going |
| 16 | But unfortunately the parting of the ways had to come and I worked in another wee shop er down in Albert Street in Leith . |
| 17 | The , the chap rung up to see when was a good time to come and I suggested Monday at half past six . |
| 18 | The next day I was walking to work and I 'd just got as far as the hospital . |
| 19 | ‘ I would n't want anyone to suffer like I did . ’ |
| 20 | Yep and and he does n't seem to be able to concentrate and I said , but Neil you can drive , when you go out with me you drive beautifully yes but yours is an automatic car , I said , it 's not that I said you 've got road sense you know what you 're doing , I said your good . |
| 21 | He had wanted to know if I knew a good cardiologist , because he had a granddaughter with a rare heart condition who needed an operation , or else in a year 's time she would have died . |
| 22 | He wanted to know if I knew this George Paston . |
| 23 | I was earning £18 a week at the time and Caroline 's father , a twinkle in his eye , wanted to know if I thought that was enough to live on . |
| 24 | ‘ Mary wanted to know if I planned to marry you . |
| 25 | She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’ |
| 26 | He wanted to know if I minded being illegitimate … ’ |
| 27 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |
| 28 | For some reason or other , ever since the last meeting with Leon Shelly in the hotel lobby , and my introduction to Hellen Semmens , my interest in Shelly Films seemed to increase and I found several occasions on which to ring Hellen about arrangements for the further use of CBC announcers . |
| 29 | Speechlessly Fabia stared at him , and he went on to explain , ‘ Then last night , after a sublime day , we went out to dine and I began to admit to myself that you were getting to me in a big way . ’ |
| 30 | They would n't have got me to come if I had n't had , if I . |