Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There was a scene where I wanted to keep my clothes on and I told Adrian ‘ They do n't have to see my breasts in every shot , do they ? ’ |
| 4 | I was grateful for the radio he had borrowed from the farmer , although I had to play it almost inaudibly , so as not to disturb him . |
| 5 | He says the fans are rather less impassioned than elsewhere in Italy , although I had to tell him that once , when Trevor Francis missed a penalty for Sampdoria , his car was bombarded and his son , Matthew , was struck by a stone . |
| 6 | Although I managed to flog my tickets to a couple of touts , this month 's expenditure still leaves 40 quid unaccounted for . |
| 7 | Although I tried to get her interested in hobbies , she just was n't interested so . |
| 8 | I think that secretly I wanted to get pregnant , although I tried to kid myself I did n't . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 10 | Changez and Jamila sat apart , and although I tried to catch them looking at each other , I can guarantee that not a single surreptitious glance was exchanged by the future bed-mates . |
| 11 | At the same time , I was refusing for her to be brought to the prison because although I wanted to see her more than anything , I was damn sure she was n't going to come to prison and see me . |
| 12 | The young lady in question ( who I shall call Mrs X because I am afraid that I omitted to catch her name ) began by asking me what the bad points were within the embalming profession . |
| 13 | Ever since James brought me the clothes of that unfortunate young girl , I have been beset by a conviction that I failed to notice something of importance . ’ |
| 14 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |
| 15 | Andrew Stavanger was compelled to turn to the bank for help after the dock strikes , and it was then that I got to know him . |
| 16 | It was when I started having health and financial problems that I began to re-evaluate my life , and I could see that it was an appalling misery . |
| 17 | The effect of this inner sweetness was that I began to sing what previously I had spoken ; only I sang inwardly , and that for my Creator . |
| 18 | I knew then that my last hours had come but was in such agony that I began to wish they would come sooner . |
| 19 | He looked so genuinely worried , that I began to doubt myself . |
| 20 | ‘ T is true that I came to warn you , but also to beg you to take me with you . ’ |
| 21 | It was with great relish that I prepared to burn it down — while Charles and Dimity were conveniently away for a few days . |
| 22 | He regarded it as one of my most endearing qualities that I seemed to want nothing from him . |
| 23 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
| 24 | ‘ You will have guessed the first , ’ he resumed , masticating the thick coils of smoke , ‘ namely that I wished to inculcate you a little further in the understanding of my true nature , a little further but not too far — keep 'em guessing is my motto . |
| 25 | I went on to say to him that I wished to make it clear that my disquiet did not relate to any particular name , but if in fact the names that I had heard turned out to be a correct report , and he published the List , the List would support legitimate criticism . |
| 26 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 27 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 28 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 29 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
| 30 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |