Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 2 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 3 | So I got to stay with the dogs and |
| 4 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 5 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 6 | I tried to play on the drums , I 'm not too good at that . |
| 7 | I turned to look through the windows . |
| 8 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 9 | I began to think about the changes the coming wedding would bring . |
| 10 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 11 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 12 | ‘ Sounds as though I was right when I decided to poke into the activities of INCUBUS — and Hauser … ’ |
| 13 | I decided to talk to the teachers in their year groups to elicit their personal views of questioning . |
| 14 | I decided to write to the Grocers ' Company about the matter . |
| 15 | I was paid by the dry weight and you can imagine how many bucketfuls I needed to scrape off the rocks to earn myself any return at all . |
| 16 | I started to think of the stories Henry Mendez had told about Russell , piecing little bits of it together now . |
| 17 | It mattered not that after weeks of interviews with 35 Palestinian families in Lebanon , I chose to write about the experiences only of those who had no immediate connection with the Palestinian guerrilla movement . |
| 18 | For the community work I went to help with the Mothers and Toddlers group that was held next door to the school . |
| 19 | It was funny though , when I went to get on the scales everybody went phew |
| 20 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
| 21 | When I was little I learned to swim in the ponds of the Romney Marshes , behind Dungeness . |
| 22 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
| 23 | Once the semantics of police experience were revealed , I had to live with the problems experienced by both Castenada and Favret-Saada , although I demur from casting myself into their intellectual companionship . |
| 24 | At very long meetings , punctuated by the arrival of quite excellent sandwiches — for me the most unhealthy of all foodstuffs — I had to listen to the outpourings of the leading fanatics in the medical profession ; to the timorous intervention of the moderates ; and happily to the constant , wise and soothing interventions of Derek Damerell , the chief executive of BUPA , to whom the country owes a debt that has never received proper recognition . |
| 25 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 26 | and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement . |
| 27 | I had to go to the doctors , carrying on , outside everything |
| 28 | That morning , when the doctor saw I had to go with the pirates to find the treasure , he had left the squire to look after the captain , then took Gray and Ben Gunn with him to be ready to help us . |
| 29 | Mind you , mind you I went er through Newark the other day and I had to go round the mountains to get back on that road out to Lincoln . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sorry , truly I am , but I had to look after the boys . |