Example sentences of "that i [vb past] [to-vb] my " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife .
5 ‘ I always said that I had to put my medical career before my rugby , but the new job will not force me to retire because my colleagues are so supportive and helpful . ’
6 It was clear , then , that I had to choose my moment wisely .
7 Now it was an atrocious stench that infested the windless air , a nauseating compound of decomposing flesh and excrement , so revolting that I had to hold my nose and breathe through my mouth .
8 Bill Francis looked so much worse in twelve hours that I had to control my expression when I went back to him .
9 It meant that I had to renew my Jamaican passport .
10 She said that I had to tell my parents .
11 It was n't until Suede that I started to forge my own identity .
12 But I 'd eluded them before and I could again , I told myself , almost jauntily , as I ambled into the bar that I decided to make my last stop for the night .
13 The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin .
14 But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire .
15 The magazine America had already written about this ; it had published an interview in which I announced that I wanted to hand my collection over to the Tretyakov Gallery as a gift , and saying that I intended to make Lilya curator of the collection .
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