Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] i [verb] " 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 | colour this is not going to go where I want it to go . |
| 4 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't want anyone to suffer like I did . ’ |
| 6 | Well , you know , I mean I 'd like to know if I 've answered them right , you know . |
| 7 | well it 's Wednesday now look , just even to know if I 've got something there |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He wanted to know if I knew this George Paston . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Mary wanted to know if I planned to marry you . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If Brian Clough is still interested in me he will want to know if I cope as well during a bad spell as I did when I was enjoying a purple patch and scored 11 goals in 14 games earlier in the season . ’ |
| 14 | She keeps wanting to know if I play golf . |
| 15 | He wanted to know if I minded being illegitimate … ’ |
| 16 | They would n't have got me to come if I had n't had , if I . |
| 17 | I know where to come if I run out of tea bags . |
| 18 | It was time to find if I had managed to stay within my budget . |
| 19 | I can isolate my Koi and they are easy to catch if I need to give them short term baths . |
| 20 | ‘ When I bought the VF I left it completely standard because I wanted to establish if I had any talent . |
| 21 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 22 | but as I was saying erm , it was erm when you think I sort of tend to worry if I see like Neville you know |
| 23 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |
| 24 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 25 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , Shelley , I told Consuelo not to come because I thought Mrs Richards would be back in her villa . ’ |
| 27 | And I said well look I said , I 've got to come because I said there 's no way anybody I said I would n't do it myself , I would n't put anybody in those beds . |
| 28 | Producer John Hughes , a father of two , said : ‘ The second one was easier to write because I knew who was in it . |
| 29 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 30 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |