Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 2 | And it is some of those shared beliefs and concerns that I intend to address this evening : |
| 3 | It was during my fourth visit to Rhodesia that I managed to take some time off . |
| 4 | It was at this point that I left to seek medical help for fear I would split my sides . |
| 5 | I mean I I went in there yesterday , I think it was , or this morning erm he put wet shirts into the wardrobe admittedly with the doors open but that bedroom is not a bedroom that I like to get any dampness in at all , Brenda . |
| 6 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 7 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 8 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
| 9 | It was ironic in retrospect that I had to travel half way round the globe to get to know working class men from my own back yard . |
| 10 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 11 | Erm , this is something that I started to use last year . |
| 12 | When I was chided by someone for seeming oblivious of ‘ the magnitude of the accounting operation ’ I said that it was because of my consciousness of the magnitude of all other operations that I dared to make these demands of Mr Whalley , who perfectly understands in any case . |
| 13 | once we 've got that then we have the resources from that I think to introduce other programmes that take |
| 14 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 15 | But it was n't until I read the piece in the paper last week that I decided to have another try . ’ |
| 16 | It 's the rest of the stuff that I want to do this month . |
| 17 | Do you think for one minute that I want to live next door to a stinking curry eater or a mugging , drug-dealing , sweaty black rasta ? |
| 18 | Erm and I would just comment on Mr 's er criteria assessment that I fail to see any difference really between any of the three re er regional routes in terms of the potential of opening a station on any of them . |
| 19 | Firstly , that I seem to spend more time out of the house than in it , and then more time away from home than at home , and finally but just as significantly , more time just watching the world go by then dashing around with it . |
| 20 | It 's a Les Paul-type guitar and it 's great , apart from the fact that I seem to get terrible feedback , even at low volumes . |
| 21 | I decided that I needed to get some support , to find someone who could , let us say , take charge of me and give me advice . |
| 22 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 23 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 24 | I announce that I plan to throw one honey of a tantrum , complete with sound effects and meteorological events , if I am not instantly issued with a remote to keep tabs on my subject . |
| 25 | Whether that man is the prime minister , modifying his opinions to catch votes , or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention , that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him , any more than I want to eat canned salmon . |
| 26 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 27 | There were n't many people sitting near us , so I tried to make polite conversation , but he was n't having any . |
| 28 | One to the sea , which is about 80 miles away , and another to Sao Paulo which is quite near , and I hope to do some shopping for presents there before I come home . |
| 29 | My manager has given me permission for me to use the shop foyer for a whole day and I hope to get local radio and local papers to advertise the sale for me . |
| 30 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |