Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 2 | I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman . |
| 3 | My next call was to a local Somerset newspaper , where I spoke to a gentleman about the subject of the Chalice Well cover . |
| 4 | Remember Ma Christie , our Norwegian Pathfinder , who wondered at how his crew just happened to appear as though from some mystique of chance ; how Middleton said in effect " my crew is the best in the Command … leave them be or I return to the Main Force " . |
| 5 | Although I wrote to the Corporation drawing attention to Captain Roskill 's account of the incident , the letter was neither published nor acknowledged — presumably on the basis that the BBC saw no reason why facts should spoil a good story about a ‘ cover-up ’ . |
| 6 | Although I insisted to the referee that the goal should stand because I had sent Pahdra on as substitute , the ref was not fooled , especially as Mr Singh was still wearing his dufflecoat and brogues . |
| 7 | With hindsight , it was inevitable my application to continue full-time study would be refused , for in their eyes I had wandered long enough in the margins and so my hierarchy now ordered that I return to the basics of uniform police duties . |
| 8 | It is against that background that I return to the conclusion of the majority of the Court of Appeal that the mere fact that Wickes might be able to advance such an argument founded upon article 30 , which was at least not a groundless argument , compelled the Court of Appeal to require an undertaking in damages from the council . |
| 9 | He recommended that I go to a hospital and see a psychiatrist . |
| 10 | One day , in one of these tiny streets , with shops on either side and with stalls of street vendors in front of them , the way was so crowded that I got to a place where it was impossible to move . |
| 11 | May I draw my right hon. Friend 's attention to the delegation that I led to the Lord Chancellor to consider the problem of bail bandits and light sentencing by Crown courts , and to the concern in my constituency that the Hampshire police authority is short changing the Isle of Wight in terms of the number of constables on the beat ? |
| 12 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 13 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 14 | The point that I made to the Committee is that if we wish to reduce the hours of the House or change the sitting times — that is still an open question — it is important that we consider how the time of the House is used at present and to make reductions pro rata . |
| 15 | The detail of the proposals on contributions was , of course , fully set out in the very full statement that I made to the House by way of a written answer at the same time as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's autumn statement on 6 November . |
| 16 | I repeat a suggestion that I made to the Secretary of State at the time of the last atrocity in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 18 | Indeed , it was watching television recently that I came to the conclusion that what the Lord 's Day Observance Society needs is a good PR man . |
| 19 | It began to prey on my mind so much that I went to the casualty department of Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 20 | They did try and imply that I went to the toilet for some sexual activity with the lead singer of Suede , which is a bit boring , and something that I 'd probably wish for more than think was nasty |
| 21 | You may tell me that I went to the wrong place to begin with — and I can now agree . |
| 22 | and er when I tell you that I went to the detective staff in nineteen twenty seven , then we started with our first mobile help . |
| 23 | I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class . |
| 24 | Recently , from a series of parliamentary questions that I tabled to the Secretary of State for Scotland , it became clear that since his appointment he had not even bothered to contact the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to discuss the storage and reprocessing of spent fuel at Dounreay . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , that money that I took to the taxi rank this morning . |
| 27 | Do you con will you continue that story that I listened to a week before cos I was n't here last week |
| 28 | That I belong to a sort of band of people who have to stand against all the rest . |
| 29 | Our metabolic differences were once explained to us by a Dyak companion in Borneo as due to the fact that I belong to the tribe of gibbons , whereas Lorne belongs more to that of the orangutan . |
| 30 | The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant . |