Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect to continue to make the same kind of pictures . ’ |
| 2 | I want help to discover the real me after all these years . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd hoped to get the poor man writing again . |
| 4 | A deaf therapist said : ‘ They felt that if I wanted to be on the course , I 'd got to manage the same as everyone else . |
| 5 | You said I 'd got to make the most of it this week end . |
| 6 | The horrible truth was slowly dawning on me : I 'd been so preoccupied with finding things like Wellington boots and torches , not to mention boning up on my Enid Blyton , that I 'd forgotten to read the small print . |
| 7 | Lying in bed , looking at the stiff poses in the pictures , I began to want to see the living reality — and the only reality to begin with for me was the singing that I heard through my sickroom window . |
| 8 | I take two examples which I find seem to embrace the fateful aspects of my life in the Service . |
| 9 | Since I 'd rather look at vegetation than at larch lap panels , I decided to try to cover the whole fence with a rich variety of climbers and wall plants . |
| 10 | If I did manage to get the rubber disc in now , but then he arrived an hour or two late , and then we went out for a romantic candle-lit dinner , and then we chatted for a while … the spermicide would have decided to cease hostilities at just about the time I needed it to be at its most fierce . |
| 11 | I did go down to my local Citizens ' Advice Bureau to see if they had any ideas , but all they could do was pass on the news that there was a squeeze on the social fund ( the emergency payments fund ) , so I was well advised not to expect too much if I did decide to try the social security people . |
| 12 | I did attempt to explain the other evening , but — ’ Her voice cracked , broke , gave out . |
| 13 | I had hoped to find the original bill for the chandelier in the Abercorn Papers , but a day 's search for them in the Belfast Record Office revealed nothing : in true British fashion , all feed and stapling bills were meticulously preserved and carefully tied in small bundles , but bills for plate and jewels seem not to have been preserved . |
| 14 | After about three months I had managed to fill the entire cash book with this sort of mundane rubbish . |
| 15 | I had chosen to join the 10th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment , and the preliminary training evenings were geared towards physical exercise , getting us ready for ‘ P Company ’ , the tests which every aspiring paratrooper , territorial or regular , had to pass before being able to wear his coveted maroon beret . |
| 16 | The Gendarme on duty at Boulogne Police Station looked surprised when I said that I had come to join the French Foreign Legion . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman is as wrong about that as he was in his assertion during the recent debate that I had refused to meet the regional Sports Council chairmen , which he knows to be untrue . |
| 18 | In my statement to the House of 15 January , I explained th steps that I had taken to improve the first five environmentally sensitive areas designated in 1987 , my plans for reviewing this year those ESAs designated in 1988 , including any boundary adjustments , and my timetable for designating a further 12 areas this year and in 1993 . |
| 19 | That I l I 've forgotten to bring the other work . |
| 20 | I 've been in and out of places , I 've had to learn the hard way . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've come to use the fair as promotion , and I think everyone is returning to this idea after the end of the bonanza period . ’ |
| 22 | I 've come to win the British Open ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Alison 's got a very individual style , so I 've learnt to expect the unexpected , I thought she looked fabulous . ’ |
| 24 | I suppose I 've got to the age when I 've started to find the past interesting . ’ |
| 25 | I 've learned to turn the other cheek in a manner that would make Christian proud . |
| 26 | I 've got my life to live and it 's in this house , and I say again , you left me a legacy and I 've got to manage the best way I can . |
| 27 | I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way . |
| 28 | I 've got to make allowances you see cos I 've got to fill the day f with jobs for the other lads , so if I allow two hours I 've got to fill the other six . |
| 29 | On the hotel the sequence was I 've got to do the first-fix plumbing before I do the second-fix plumbing . |
| 30 | So I 've got to take the four one megs out and put four four megs in . |