Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If I end up back there , she might just be interested enough in what I got to say to do some investigating of her own . ’
2 If I 'd wanted to do red nipples there was n't a decent whole stick of red left .
3 In effect , I 'd lost a day and I wondered if there had been something I 'd planned to do that Monday , like work , for instance .
4 I did n't know why I 'd agreed to attend this festival .
5 The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies .
6 I kept trying to find all sorts of reasons for doing so .
7 I could hardly refuse , but I did refuse to take any payment , although I really needed the money .
8 I did want to do this run without books . ’
9 His explanation was ‘ business interests ’ and indeed , I did start to see discrete references to him , under his working name ‘ Samuel Northcliffe ’ , in the financial and economic sections of the newspaper .
10 ‘ When I started , ’ he recalls , ‘ I did try to follow old patterns , but it was n't easy , so I followed my imagination .
11 I had begun to experience increasing difficulty with reading from about the age of thirteen .
12 I had begun to desire some balance in my life and after that my socialising was toned down and my private moments stepped up .
13 I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason .
14 I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’
15 I had wanted to help these people and their King .
16 You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six .
17 I had planned to propose last night , ’ he said , watching her stricken face .
18 I had hoped to purchase high-ratio Salisbury diffs for a Series III to take back to Australia .
19 I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications .
20 The fact that I had failed to find any companions did n't help my cause very much .
21 I had tried to diet many times before .
22 He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed .
23 I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules .
24 Though I had forgotten to bring any photographs with me , this one seemed empty .
25 For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening .
26 But by my late teens I had come to find this attitude repellent , and knew that I was never going to fulfil my parents ' expectations .
27 I had come to dread that word — not that I was n't all in favour of efficiency generally but I did feel that there were times when other criteria applied .
28 I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action .
29 And you 'd got to pay five shillings .
30 He 'd driven her directly to her hotel so she could change her clothes and she 'd elected to wear lightweight cream cotton jeans topped by a matching sleeveless cotton stretch top , taking the precaution of carrying a jacket when Rune warned her that the breeze from the Baltic could be stiff despite the increasing warmth of the day .
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