Example sentences of "[vb past] i [be] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although it infuriated me , after we first met I was unable to get you out of my mind . |
| 2 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 3 | I found I was unable to walk about . |
| 4 | The fit of this brace was firm and it felt comfortable , despite the fact that it is an off-the-shelf model ( its older brother , the CTI , is custom-fit ) and I found I was able to ski with some confidence in my otherwise highly unstable knee . |
| 5 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 6 | On my shirt Harvey had arranged that I wore the word ‘ observer ’ , which meant I was able to remember a prior appointment when the going got rough . |
| 7 | So after all this I felt I was ready to retire . |
| 8 | Please would you supply details of exactly what you sent to District Audit as , I understood I was supposed to provide details of the Parish Council bank accounts and copies of the bank statements at the audit on 7th May 91 . |
| 9 | However , in my heart I also knew I was right to leave . |
| 10 | They knew I was ready to drop the bairn . |
| 11 | I thought I was ready to play and I was . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Dysart paid over the odds for charring , and my Wilfrid thought I was mad to give it up , but I was glad to go , believe you me , glad to be out of that house for good and all . |
| 13 | He never thought I was fit to run a shoe shop . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought I was supposed to stay with you all day . ’ |
| 15 | Before I left I was able to give him the good news about his friend Donald , one of the officers to whom we had given food and clothes on the banks of the Rovacchia . |
| 16 | When she left I was free to stay and paint as I pleased . |
| 17 | I said I was proud to have your acquaintance — and so I am . |
| 18 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 19 | ‘ I said I was willing to work and to learn , ’ said Sally-Anne , exasperated by all this havering . |
| 20 | Well it 's just erm ah I do n't know , I mean there 's there 's certain things I mean , it it 's like this maths I mean , I I spoke to her erm and she said yes Lee had come on and everything in his maths and I said we the thing is , I said , knowing Lee has difficulty in in th l in the high level maths , yes you do n't want to drop him , but surely I said I 'm willing to help in my spare time , Lee 's willing to do it and I said ca n't you show Lee I said I 'm not I was n't trying to tell her |
| 21 | His twenty-one months as a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe would have been satisfactory , he later calculated , ‘ had I been able to bank them and draw them two or three weeks at a time whenever I wanted a respite from ordinary experience ’ . |
| 22 | I might have broken my luck had I been able to get over the Alps on a raid to Turin on 11 June . |
| 23 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 24 | Had I been able to come , I would have sought the union 's support our wish to see full advantage being taken in Wales of the CAP 's Agri-Environment Programme . |
| 25 | I learnt later that he and some of his lords considered I was wrong to have a conversation with enemies of Lilliput . |