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 . |