Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think I often wanted to be . |
| 2 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 3 | Do you know I actually listened to some of this tape and I do n't half sound different on the taped , the real me |
| 4 | It was n't to take revenge on Kee that he wanted a woman — a want he now confessed to Theo . |
| 5 | Just to change the subject from the Rocky debate for a while , does anybody know what ever happened to Aidan Butterworth ? |
| 6 | Others may possibly have enjoyed what later came to be described as ‘ money-fiefs ’ , the regular receipt of some tax or source of revenue in return for service . |
| 7 | She says she never wanted to be a movie star : ‘ For me , it was always the stage . ’ |
| 8 | She took herself in hand , the essay she told herself firmly had to be shelved : one step before the other . |
| 9 | First to go was a rather nervous Richard Crout with Jesse , a 1908 steam roller , belching out smoke he gingerly took to the roads . |
| 10 | It was difficult to tell as , in their search for an individual expression of fashion , they had adopted what virtually amounted to a black uniform . |
| 11 | I do n't think she ever came to the City of the Horizon . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ She was lucky and talented and she could do that , but I do n't think she ever wanted to be a drummer … |
| 13 | The green light surrounding them now seemed to be imparting a sick lifeless pallor . |
| 14 | Would n't it be refreshing if a new course were opened which simply claimed to be a lovely place for club players to play but that it would n't really test the pros . |
| 15 | Julia seemed to take on a new lease of life and now that the weather was improving she often walked to Carrie 's house or to see Bridie and her family . |
| 16 | The prosecution allege he then drove to Catterick Bridge and was sexually frustrated when he saw Mrs Chandler at about 10.45am . |
| 17 | Could not believe he really wanted to . |
| 18 | Against all his father 's advice and pleading he then proceeded to Mannheim . |
| 19 | I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint . |
| 20 | Look what nearly happened to me . ’ |
| 21 | Well direct sales you you know I always tried to sort of stay away from companies that you know had a reputation for that . |
| 22 | She 's sitting down with her back to me , just like she always used to , and I 'm brushing slow and gentle , making her hair nice and neat . |
| 23 | This friend of ours who lost his wife last year , well we 've got another friend who was very fond of her she also smokes we just happened to me we did n't say |
| 24 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |
| 25 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 26 | But it helps even more if we understand what his purpose is , which is in the next verse : ‘ Those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son , that he might be the firstborn among many brothers . ’ |
| 27 | Wait till you hear what fucking happened to us on Sunday , |
| 28 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 29 | Tani 1984 ) , but is part of a more recent trend on the part of ‘ serious ’ fiction to incorporate what hitherto tended to be regarded as ‘ popular ’ genres : the detective story ( giallo ) in Stefano Benni 's Comici spaventati guerrieri ( Comic frightened Warriors , 1986 ) and in Gianfranco Manfredi 's two novels to date ; the thriller in De Carlo 's Uccelli da gabbia e da voliera ( Cage Birds and Aviary Birds , 1982 ) and , in a form largely hidden by the luxuriance of the language , in Aldo Busi 's most recent book La Delfina Bizantina ( The Byzantine Dolphin , 1987 ) ; science fiction ( Benni 's Terra ! , 1983 ) ; the fantastic , with its recurring topic of ‘ doubles ’ , in another novel published by the enterprising Ancona firm Il Lavoro Editoriale , Claudio Lolli 's L'inseguitore Peter H . |
| 30 | Elizabeth 's friend Maud must have said something of this sort , for I find I once wrote to her : ‘ Maud was right , I think . |