Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 2 | ‘ And these stones — so unexpected in this magnificent country — because I confess it is not for the pleasures of civilisation that I came to this district but for the informing breadth and spectacles of Nature — reminded me of somewhere I knew not where and that was my over-selfish study which all but ended in a brute collision with yourselves ! ’ |
| 3 | Of course , over the years we 've campaigned , as I was telling someone only yesterday in another club that I go to at the church , that I said you know we , the Co-op Womens ' Guild , were helping to put water into Africa before any of this Band-aid and Live-aid was thought about . |
| 4 | I needed some comfort after the election result so I turned to it for some like-minded thought . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't recall giving any indication that I wanted to . ’ |
| 6 | In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position . |
| 7 | If , for example , I call my mother' brother 's son by the same term that I apply to my mother 's brother , the implication is that I share a common relationship with both . |
| 8 | It is with the greatest possible pleasure that I write to you once more , this time to confirm that your Company 's independence has been preserved after a battle which has lasted over nine months . |
| 9 | Well , well actually , there 's one thing I 've missed out which I said I 'd come back to , and that was the front line review that I referred to . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | PAMELA : This weights less with me than anything else you have said , for there is an end of all merit and all good behaviour on my side if I consent to your proposals , and what , sir , would the world say were you to marry your harlot ? |
| 12 | On another occasion , she wrote : ‘ We were in the bedroom and I said to mother : ‘ What is that ? ’ , referring to an overmantel mirror . |
| 13 | John Buchan was President and I wrote to him asking for his advice . |
| 14 | We always march in the parade on Armistice Sunday and this year erm I picked my poppy wreath up from the vic from vicarage and I said to the Vicar , you do n't mind if I wind some white poppies in this one do you , because it was the Earl Hague poppy you know . |
| 15 | ‘ The world championships are in the forefront of my mind and I have to be patient . |
| 16 | ' I can change my mind if I want to . ’ |
| 17 | Because I went up to their fabric department and I want to after Christmas I 'm going to wash all the covers on the er settees , you know er the dralon . |
| 18 | If you can see a result If I talk to John Smith and tell him that I know he keeps riding on the pavement at you know , with no lights , it sounds minor , but the old age pensioner who keeps nearly getting missed , it 's very you know upsetting . |
| 19 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 20 | Moely was swimming after the boat and I shouted to him : |
| 21 | . And I could join a new image club if I wanted to . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to do well for the club but I seem to be heading up a blind alley and maybe a move is the only solution . |
| 23 | So I had to be a bear till I got to the top of the mountain and then you have to look round to see , I wonder whether , who were those girls who were messing around over there ca n't stand that , mm , do something with them |
| 24 | And you can also get lost even if you do say the script because I said to Roger I , I 've |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been losing quite a lot of weight since I came to Hochhauser . |
| 26 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 27 | He sent me a memorandum directing me to inform him in future before I write to any newspaper periodical on matters appertaining to the force . |
| 28 | I suppose I 'm reluctant to go into the school side before I have to because I 'm not very good with kids . ’ |
| 29 | I ask these questions because of course article five of the treaty of Rome basis a burden on this court , it does n't er create rights in itself , I think everyone agrees with this , but it certainly er imposes a duty on this court erm to apply with er community laws , purposes and principals and I 'm wondering whether erm , that , that is why I 'm looking at the possible consequences of this er the inter relationship between the , for example , the directive and article eighty five , er and bearing in mind as I said to Mr the other day , the consequences erm of er these fees |
| 30 | She had told neighbours : ‘ We were all watching television in a back bedroom when I went to the toilet . |