Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took me down for many terrible half-hours beneath the floorboards , beneath the joists , with cord or cable in his questing hand ; the platonic darkness of this underworld became a figure for our nightlife , candle-lit , torchbeam-pierced ; our old existence I came to picture as a boundless cathedral of light . |
| 2 | After a fruitless hour I decided to go on the stick . |
| 3 | And of course I had to go on the carpet about that , for laughing . |
| 4 | So the two of us went off to Peel and er anyway they paid us , they paid for our lunch and er and so that was alright and of course I had to go in the witness box , you see and swear on the bible , you know , the whole truth , nothing but the truth , you see . |
| 5 | ‘ But it was just a decision I had to make under the circumstances I was given . |
| 6 | My peg was on a gravel point , it looked perfect for the stick float but as I was fishing for a good weight I opted to start on the feeder . |
| 7 | I had the Count send him my plans for the work I wanted to do on the buildings . |
| 8 | This was the question I tried to answer as the decade of the 1980s began . |
| 9 | If the filly did go off her legs I should have to start cutting into her windpipe , but I put the thought away from me , For the moment I had to depend on the adrenalin . |
| 10 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 11 | ‘ We did n't , but when I heard the whisper about the picture I decided to beef up the budget , ’ her father explained . |
| 12 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 13 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 14 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 15 | One day I happened to come across the work of the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi . |
| 16 | The next day I decided to walk through the forest for a few miles and take the train to Strelsau from a little station along the road . |
| 17 | On one occasion I stopped to pray before the statue of a saint at a street corner and noticed the lamp burning before it . |
| 18 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 19 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 20 | Sir : After reading a review in your magazine I decided to send for a shareware copy of Return to Kroz . |
| 21 | FIGURE 1 Working on brown Ingres paper I started to experiment with the graphic qualities of the Chisel-edged pastels by reversing out a basic shape for the hedge |
| 22 | Like that deep trog of a bank manager I went to see at the end of my first term at university . |
| 23 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 24 | Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year . |
| 25 | As we were walking to the next hole I tried to think of the right things to say to him , so I said , ‘ Greg , do me a favour . |
| 26 | One reason I chose to work in the USA for 1994 was to watch England win the WC ; - ) |
| 27 | THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber . |
| 28 | It was n't that the song had a particular relevance — it was n't about AIDS — but it was a song that I felt was the best way of expressing myself and also the best thing I had to offer at the time . |
| 29 | Ben Bellaser was best man , of course , ‘ … and had first kiss of the fair bride I helped to save from the grave ’ . |
| 30 | Becky thought that she was the ‘ BB ’ whose hand I wanted to hold on the bus tonight . |