Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 2 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 3 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 4 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 5 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
| 6 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 7 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |
| 9 | But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops . |
| 10 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 11 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
| 12 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
| 13 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |