Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to pass the time until the tea cooled . |
| 2 | I got to remember the name so I do n't forget . |
| 3 | ( ‘ I tried to join the army when I got out of Borstal ’ , said Kev , an 18 year old skin , ‘ Do me bit and see the world and that . |
| 4 | And I came to ask the doctor if I could get H R T. And she took my blood pressure and it was too high |
| 5 | I forgot to do the parsnips when I did the potatoes , but I think they 'll be |
| 6 | I began to see the Luciferi as evil . |
| 7 | ‘ After Stephen was captured I swore to serve the Queen until his release , to obey her commands as I would the King 's . |
| 8 | Marx , at No. 13 with Take This Heart , admitted : ‘ I decided to cancel the show because it was pouring with rain and I knew I could be electrocuted . |
| 9 | Lecturers I spoke to saw the course as chiefly concerned with the development of critical skills combined with promoting an understanding of the vocational areas on which communications has a bearing : |
| 10 | ‘ I learned to fly the Gloster before I left England , ’ he explained , ‘ though I could never have afforded to buy a plane . |
| 11 | I had to leave the country because of death threats and Mercedes Recinos , who worked in the post before me , was murdered . |
| 12 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 13 | I thanked the baker and begged him not to let Granpa know what I was about , as I wanted to close the metsieh before he found out . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to show the Broads as they are ’ , he says , ‘ a working landscape , a self-supporting community . |