Example sentences of "i [verb] [vb pp] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd wanted to mooch round Bristol 's hills and shops , its hidden alleyways and markets , along all those rivers . |
| 2 | I frequently heard reference to the " Mad Mullah " , whose forces still occupied half the country ; and I listened enthralled to descriptions by officers in the Somali Camel Corps of fights against his Dervishes . |
| 3 | ‘ I had moved to France with the very firm intention of trying to write a novel ; the other books [ including the bestselling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence ] got in the way . |
| 4 | Herbert and I had moved to rooms in a house by the river , in the Temple area . |
| 5 | Yeah because I had said to father during the day on Sunday , I wonder if any of our children are alive ? |
| 6 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 7 | I had gone to bed about midnight . |
| 8 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 9 | I had gone to Bletchley in excitement and trepidation , had been very content there , in congenial company , and with the satisfaction of knowing that I was employed on work essential to the war effort . |
| 10 | I told them that I was British , that I had gone to Stuttgart under the British flag . |
| 11 | This turned out to be P2653 , the aircraft I had ferried to Malta in June of the previous year . |
| 12 | Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd . |
| 13 | However , I had spoken to Otto on the subject of contracts and was very much better informed since my stay at Les Glycines . |
| 14 | After I had returned to Oxford from Abyssinia at the beginning of 1931 , I had read Nesbitt 's account of his journey , in the Geographical Journal for October 1930 . |
| 15 | I had returned to Hope from the night after Bill 's crisis . |
| 16 | Other voices could be heard , of course , but they were attended to only later — when I had returned to Oxfordshire as a headmaster . |
| 17 | I had come to Zurich from an ‘ off ’ period — it was my first race since the Commonwealth , a gap of about three weeks . |
| 18 | If I had admitted to cold in any of these instances , I should also have had to admit that my fund of energy was n't limitless . |
| 19 | Fenner Brockway , well I , I 've gone to meetings in the Albert Hall , and I 've gone to meetings at Sheffield . |
| 20 | Fenner Brockway , well I , I 've gone to meetings in the Albert Hall , and I 've gone to meetings at Sheffield . |
| 21 | I 've been generous in the latitude I 've given to speakers in talking to this proposal , but it is quite specific about the the review of er responsibilities |
| 22 | This is the first visit that I 've made to Europe since my escape from Germany in 1940 . |
| 23 | And it was all in a bunch , so I 've had to sort of unhook it . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's what I 've come to London for . |
| 25 | The 21-year-old McCracken , who makes his debut in tomorrow 's home game with Wakefield , said : ‘ I 've come to England with a bit of a reputation but I want to put all that behind me and get on with playing rugby and improving my game . |
| 26 | I 've come to terms with the blow and I 've a marriage to arrange . |
| 27 | Luckily , I 've come to terms with my height and now it 's to my advantage , ’ she says . |
| 28 | In the meantime , I 've come to terms with her . |
| 29 | I 've come to terms with it , it does n't bother whether I 've got it or not , but to be honest I 'd rather have more hair than I do now . |
| 30 | it seems like now to tell you at last I 've come to terms with it now , I 've really |