Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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1 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
2 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
3 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
4 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
5 | I decided to phone him in the evening . |
6 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
7 | I went to fetch it in the van . |
8 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
9 | I had to put one in the microwave |
10 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
11 | ‘ I had to keep you in the dark . |
12 | ‘ John was away a great deal , Laura and I travelled to join him in the constituency when we could and inevitably there was uncertainty and strain in the air . ’ |
13 | I knew that the throat mike would take the strain , I intended to wear it in the front of my hair , as originated by the cast of Les Miserables , not as Joyce wore hers — at the throat — as TV presenters wear them , on the lapel — which in any case was something I did not have . |
14 | Besides , I wanted to put you in the picture . |
15 | At this stage I wanted to put you in the picture . ’ |
16 | I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways . |
17 | I wanted to ring her in the morning , she 'd sounded so unhappy when I left her . |
18 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
19 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
20 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
21 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
22 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
23 | Teri has given up going to New Year 's Eve parties after she had to lock herself in the kitchen with loads of middle aged ladies hammering on the door . |
24 | Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ? |
25 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |
26 | When you used anything , you had to put it in the Book . |
27 | And you had to put it in the letter box , you dare n't leave it in the in the . |
28 | Well , you had to flash it in the doorway , and they 'd see it in any case . |
29 | And though she longed to lose herself in the flames , to be consumed and reborn , she was also terribly afraid . |
30 | By the end of the reign it was already falling off , and while Henry VI had much noble support for his coronation expedition in 1430–1 , those who continued to serve him in the French war in the years to come constituted a relatively small group of men . |