Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agreed to give a dinner and it took place in my London home some weeks later . |
| 2 | And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these |
| 3 | Well , I tried to get a video cos I wa I wanted to use this section to actually watch it . |
| 4 | I stopped to pick a rose as we made our way down the garden . |
| 5 | I forgot to take a couple when I got back to England . |
| 6 | While Fielding dealt with that one ( " Oh ma'am , but yes , " he began ) I turned to face a kitchen or parlour , plain in its shapes but full of manmade coatings and colours . |
| 7 | I began to carry a gun and a knife with me everywhere I went . |
| 8 | Round about the Elephant and Castle I decided to call a truce and talk to him . |
| 9 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 10 | I decided to fetch a book and read out of doors in my overcoat . |
| 11 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 12 | Even better I thought to find a society that automatically lets its existing investors know when a better deal becomes available . |
| 13 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 14 | I went to have a cardiogram and there is a guy hiding behind the curtains ! |
| 15 | When I loaded in the game I hit fire , and once I got to the end of the screen I went to enter a hole that is there but I could n't . |
| 16 | I went to help a youth and was comforting him . |
| 17 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 18 | I had to take a breather and a hoarse croak escaped me . |
| 19 | I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself . |
| 20 | In fact , he is not a great motivator through the actual force of his personality , and if I had to name a weakness that would be it . |
| 21 | I had to have a bit because when I put the blackcurrant in there was n't enough so I had to mix it up with . |
| 22 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
| 23 | I had to construct a model that would lead me to a series of questions that would have empirically testable answers which would allow me to deduce an answer to my original question . |
| 24 | I went , I had to tell a lady that her husband had died er about two Christmases ago , two days before Christmas . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But obviously I had to make a choice as neither of them wanted a threesome friendship . |
| 27 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 28 | I had to steal a car and … all sorts of things . ’ |
| 29 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 30 | Then I had to find a cab and get back here . |