Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly , Sir David has requested that I convey to young Reginald the facts of life . ’ |
| 2 | Quite often , the first clue that I get to old age anxiety is when a mature dog is referred to me with , what appears to be , an ‘ out of character ’ separation anxiety . |
| 3 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 4 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
| 5 | In the later afternoon , Andrew Gregg , deputy co-ordinator of ‘ UUUC Advice and Relief Centres ’ , and I returned to Central Strike Headquarters and collected a portable typewriter and some other items of equipment useful for continuing the strike should we have to go into hiding . |
| 6 | There were inter-party rivalries within the UUUC and inter-factional rivalries within the parties and , although Paisley and I belonged to different parties , the fact that we were both identified with the Black case was not necessarily always helpful . |
| 7 | The bull withdrew a bit , and I said to Merry : |
| 8 | Now , I and I went to other day , I was having quite bad headaches from the back of my eyes , feeling like , you know , I had pressure there , and so , I think it was just headaches but I wanted to go and check it out , and I went to the , cos my dad said oh if you go to the opticians erm , they give you free checks as you 've got glaucoma in the family , and erm , or glaucoma , or whatever you call it . |
| 9 | You and I went to ordinary grammar schools , Bob — but we do n't go round pretending to be classless . |
| 10 | My original career intention was to go into farm management and I went to agricultural college . |
| 11 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 12 | So that that bit you , you got no problem with it , if I keep to positive numbers inside there , have you ? |
| 13 | I did n't even know I had any kind of title until I went to prep school when I started to get these letters saying : ‘ The Honourable Charles ’ . |
| 14 | Cos I said to young George , his son , I said he came when I was painting the sills and I says what do you do when it 's frosty when you start to work ? |
| 15 | But I need to sorry I need to make . |
| 16 | Before I return to other people . |
| 17 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |
| 18 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |
| 19 | I should make it clear that I am drawing on notions of an idealised business environment when I refer to unambiguous communication being the motive power which occasions accountability . |
| 20 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 21 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 22 | When I go to other er council buildings er throughout the area they 've all got these little er digital locks and people have got cards to get in and out with . |
| 23 | I intend to make animal welfare one of my priorities in th United Kingdom presidency , as I made clear when I wrote to hon. Members on 27 February . |
| 24 | You chose very well , I used to get really nervous when I came to Chinese restaurants , I never knew what to choose . |
| 25 | When I went to junior school it was half and half , white and Black kids ; the Black guys were really revered , and lots of the white boys would try to act Black , because they associated it with being hard or cool . |
| 26 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
| 27 | When I went to Bound Zoo I bought , this pencil , that 's twenty five p |
| 28 | It sounds pathetic but I 'm also still quite awestruck when I talk to famous people . ’ |
| 29 | It sounds pathetic but I 'm also still quite awestruck when I talk to famous people . ’ |
| 30 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |