Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I want to go back now to get the money . |
| 2 | My heart is in the Wallowa Valley , and I want to go back there to live . |
| 3 | Richards said : ‘ Things have n't gone well for me this season because of injuries but I want to stay on here to finish the job . |
| 4 | You see we divide our time between London and Cornwall and I 'd stayed up late to watch the film with only one light burning . |
| 5 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 6 | I had no proof of it but I was much too shy to eat every day in the company of soldiers anyway , so I decided to find somewhere else to eat . |
| 7 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 8 | When he decided to head north to enlist in the Sandinista army , I left I had to tag along just to protect my investment . |
| 9 | Angie Bowie : ‘ The Christmas before recording ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , I had flown back home to see my parents . |
| 10 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 11 | Like an actor in a Monty Python sketch , I suddenly fiddled with my fingers as though checking my nails and said , ‘ You 'd better get away , the police are coming ’ — as if I had run up specially to tell him . |
| 12 | With such scenes as these continually around me , is it surprising that I should have entertained the idea of collecting examples of the indigenous Mammals of a country whose ornithological productions I had gone out expressly to investigate ? … ’ |
| 13 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 14 | Clubs were cancelling mid-week bookings due to short time and I had to travel farther afield to find work . |
| 15 | ‘ I had to come back here to return to the basic me-ness . |
| 16 | I had to rinse quite often to get rid of debris , but it did give a close shave . |
| 17 | The barrel was nearly empty and I had to climb right inside to get my apple . |
| 18 | ‘ I had to climb out again to get some air and when I went back in I was just beaten back . |
| 19 | ‘ I guess I 've had long enough to accept it . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've had quite enough to drink , ’ she said , ‘ without you rotating like a top all night . |
| 21 | I 've come here specailly to join Cromwell 's forces . |
| 22 | Definitely , yes , I would say like I 've spoke to Brian Horton on Sunday and he more or less said that it 's er Oxford United , fourth position in the league , let's hope so like you know , they are like , and I 've come here maybe to help get them in a better position . |
| 23 | I have seen enough already to know that my work on Christabel must be seriously altered in the light of what you have in these letters — I would n't be happy going on without taking them into account — and that must be true of Dr Michell 's work on Ash too , just as true . ’ |
| 24 | The truth is , I have had only enough to permit me to drown my sorrows . ’ |
| 25 | I what I have come here today to do is is in the matters that we 're discussing , to take out any commitment to an outer northern . |
| 26 | I have come here today to call to mind our brothers and sisters who have special needs/who are mentally handicapped . |
| 27 | The underground economy in every socialist state , however , has always been resolutely capitalist , and so my friend Kurowski and I have come here tonight to find out how the world 's oldest profession is adjusting to the new economic realities . |
| 28 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 29 | I wanted to go on just to say , to address one other subject and that 's traffic calming , traffic calming is a very important aspect in our rural areas and indeed in our towns . |
| 30 | ‘ My father was German and I wanted to go out there to rebuild my life , ’ he said . |