Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] i [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm asking you to accept that I 've got reasons , and not to ask me what they are . |
| 2 | If it 's too painful for her to accept that I want to look for Elaine , then I sha n't . ’ |
| 3 | Sooner or later I would have to accept that I needed to look elsewhere . |
| 4 | How very difficult it was to accept that I did need it and to show that I needed it . |
| 5 | One problem of the past year has been the length of time it has taken me to accept that I need to work in the bookshop most of the time even though I know this work has to be done and though I enjoy it ( most of the time ) . |
| 6 | But it helps a lot to know that I 've balanced the books . ’ |
| 7 | You might like to know that I 've approached no other company . |
| 8 | Among the many ‘ thank-you ’ letters I wrote , I sent one to Alan Shell of the Humanist Association , who replied , ‘ We are very glad our letter was of help to you and you will be interested to know that I propose to send copies of your letter , with your name deleted , to our funeral officiants in the hope that they will take courage from it and help any others who might be in similar difficulties . ’ |
| 9 | He does , he said I just want you all out there to know that I do love Patsy . |
| 10 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 11 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 12 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 13 | When I regained consciousness it was to find that I 'd injured my spine and the doctor had ordered that I was to stay put , otherwise there was the possibility that I 'd end up a cripple . |
| 14 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 15 | Voting for Maastricht and hoping that the Tories can be beaten at a later date on the Social Chapter was a decision I found difficult to accept and I have done my homework on this issue . |
| 16 | I have been puzzling to establish and I have failed , whether on the fourteenth of January nineteen eighty seven when the Secretary of State wrote the notice of approval , which in confirms his view that forty three per hectare is right , whether the use classes order had then been amended . |
| 17 | Well , you know , I mean I 'd like to know if I 've answered them right , you know . |
| 18 | well it 's Wednesday now look , just even to know if I 've got something there |
| 19 | ‘ Mary wanted to know if I planned to marry you . |
| 20 | She said to Rourke , ‘ You wanted to know if I 'd lent out keys to anyone — the telephone engineer , you said , and the man who came to see to the new extension around the back . ’ |
| 21 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |
| 22 | Speechlessly Fabia stared at him , and he went on to explain , ‘ Then last night , after a sublime day , we went out to dine and I began to admit to myself that you were getting to me in a big way . ’ |
| 23 | It was time to find if I had managed to stay within my budget . |
| 24 | I can isolate my Koi and they are easy to catch if I need to give them short term baths . |
| 25 | I want to know and I want to help make it happen . ’ |
| 26 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll be honest with you , I did n't want to come but I 've got no choice . ’ |
| 28 | For what it 's worth , I merely took the opportunity to discuss a radio-related matter with him when we happened to meet because I 've kept missing him at work these last couple of days . |
| 29 | I do remember that I left a sort of note for my family telling them not to worry because I 'd got a good job and I might not be in touch for a while , but then it all gets kind of overlaid with a memory of a headache like you would n't believe , and shock at being connected to all these horrible machines and — ’ |
| 30 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |