Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then one colour ran out and I had to use a substitute on the back , which did n't really matter in the general pattern . |
| 2 | I was co-ordinating operational activities in the Institute , an international project on commodities last year , and I had to visit a number of research institutes in Asia , erm in Africa and in the Americas , where they were conducting studies on the commodities they produced . |
| 3 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There were a lot of traumatic phone calls between the two of us and I had to do a lot of soul-searching . |
| 5 | And I had to ask a lad stood at front , I said can you ask him to stop at this stop please . |
| 6 | There were only two bedrooms and I had to share a bedroom with David 's mother , a living arrangement that I just was n't used to . |
| 7 | It was rather a squash at my nana 's house because mum , and I had to share a bedroom . |
| 8 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
| 9 | Anyway I had to photograph the man , I photographed the cow and I had to photograph a background . |
| 10 | I found this one at a big sale in London , and I had to pay a lot of money for it . |
| 11 | Now I was making ten shillings a week , and I had to pay a penny toll every day to come to from office . |
| 12 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 13 | To begin with I found it almost too much to take on board , but it was all extremely thought-provoking and I had to make a decision to put my heart into it or not to bother at all ; it would have been pointless just to dip into it now and again . |
| 14 | ‘ After a cross-country pursuit it eventually landed in a tree and I had to organise a rescue . |
| 15 | a right good'un it were , our Arthur give me torch and I had to buy a battery , I paid about three pound odd for this battery |
| 16 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 17 | And then he come in to us then and he says to me I 'm bleeding and I had to get a plaster for him and he |
| 18 | There was fifty and there was five levers and three lifts and I had to get a piece of paper and er make a , when you get one , two , three and then five you could have er three , three , two , one and five , four , three , two , one , you know what I mean ? |
| 19 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 20 | ‘ In part , I think it was that Brian Eyre and I managed to establish a way of working together so that the potential for internal conflict was minimised . |
| 21 | Some of the sailors and I managed to get a boat into the water , and we rowed away to look for land . |
| 22 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 23 | Quite recently Jack , my mother and I went to see a film called Enemies : A Love Story , a story of three Holocaust survivors set in 1940s New York . |
| 24 | All the spawning mops were removed and I hoped to see a shoal of young Cardinal Tetras . |
| 25 | It was always a favourite place of Mala 's , and I hoped to get a glimpse of her in that enticing felinoid suit , to be sure she was all right . |
| 26 | Two or three cars passed me and I tried to thumb a lift , but they did n't stop . |
| 27 | And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these |
| 28 | The last show of the tour was in Atlanta and I decided to give a little party for the singers and musicians and the crew and I tried to rent a banquet room at the hotel , but because it was Thanksgiving Weekend , they said they could only give me a suite . |
| 29 | Apart from a price list , so we had a price list , and I thought right so I went to a book shop and I tried to find a book on masks nothing . |
| 30 | and I forgot to leave a note for him today and he 's left me another twenty eight pound . |