Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were that girls thought 16 was the right age to lose their virginity and that 75 per cent of them admitted to saying yes to sex when they really wanted to say no . |
| 2 | The story of the growth of community care and the closure of the asylums has been dominated by unseemly public disputes between different professional and voluntary organizations , all of them committed to developing mental health services but with very different ideas about the routes to be followed . |
| 3 | It was only to Pam that I admitted to feeling guilty and ashamed of the wave of relief I felt at her funeral , as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders . |
| 4 | This sort of behaviour is very irritating and eventually I resorted to giving him a kick . |
| 5 | Since Karen Parsons was denied me , I resorted to polishing up my French with Thérèse Racquin , but the moment I settled down to read Lynn would flop down near me and solicit my views on waste recycling or food additives . |
| 6 | This torture would be carried out every week until someone admitted to killing the boar . |
| 7 | ‘ I got to glancing through the ledgers , and before I knew it , the time had flown . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Next I got to wonderin' where it 'd be most likely to come out . |
| 9 | I mean I got to thinking if I ca n't find any I 'm dead . |
| 10 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 11 | Which sounded fine until I got to doing it . |
| 12 | Then when the Globe was after the same guy , I got to figuring . ’ |
| 13 | And he revealed : ‘ We met by accident just recently and I got to talking to him about Indy . |
| 14 | ‘ See , I got to thinkin' about what the chink said when he showed you the firebombs . |
| 15 | The more I thought about her , the nearer I got to beating off about her now . |
| 16 | Before I first met ye ’ right , I expected to fockin' hate you . ’ |
| 17 | At Key Stages 1 and 2 , these might include someone from the local archaeological unit , the museum or archives or a local historian , especially someone used to speaking to young children . |
| 18 | It was the automatic and well-oiled gesture of someone used to trading in secrets . |
| 19 | I do n't know why we 're different except that someone wants to makes some trouble . |
| 20 | Mum I want to cuddled ! |
| 21 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 22 | I woke to knocking . |
| 23 | I came to sitting on the sofa still holding the broken pot in my hand . |
| 24 | When I came to planning the circuit I realised there would actually have to be two routes — a high level one , leading over the crest of the fells , and a low level alternative for unfavourable weather . |
| 25 | ‘ I object to having idiots used as go-betweens . |
| 26 | I object to paying for it because it does nah do anything for me . |
| 27 | Because I object to paying that much for milk ! |
| 28 | It 's rather interesting that the only two management er training courses I did last year , were er stress management and time management and I seem to cocked them both up |
| 29 | ‘ I have permanently itchy feet — an affliction which I attribute to having spent most of my childhood in Africa . |
| 30 | But I 'm not sure that I 'd be the best person to judge whether I turned to writing by way of compensation or not , though I can see that a serious death like that would lead to a world that was whole being broken . |