Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to do [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah his got to do another stress test and have more level . |
| 2 | In the end I agreed to do this but I remember leaving the meeting literally , I am afraid , in tears and saying that although I would obey the majority I would resign from the Government afterwards as quietly as I could because I should have failed to uphold an almost lifelong conviction … |
| 3 | As I failed to do this I spent the entire journey staring intently at the zip of my coat and at least I learned a lot about clothes fastenings that morning . |
| 4 | Although I tried to do this visualization several times a day , I found it best and most rewarding first thing in the morning when I and my mind were fresh . |
| 5 | In the rest of this chapter I shall describe how I tried to do this , drawing on my own experience and developing mathematical interests and understanding . |
| 6 | I promised to do that . |
| 7 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 8 | So I decided to do that and started to feel so sick . |
| 9 | I decided to do half a dozen a day until I 'd got through them . |
| 10 | So I decided to do some investigating of my own . |
| 11 | We had no Balls as such in those days , we would have a dance , and when I was entertaining any of my theatrical friends from the West End it was always Tommy that I selected to do some special entertaining — well within the reach of the station commander 's entertaining fund . |
| 12 | Well no , I started to do that , then I , then I thought we do n't play the customer . |
| 13 | They 've got a spare room in my mum 's flat so I just took it over and put a weights bench in and , what else , a rowing machine and I started to do some weights |
| 14 | Yes I meant to do that , I 'll do it when I come back down now . |
| 15 | I offered to do that . |
| 16 | I offered to do any kind of work , teaching , sewing , cleaning , so that I could become independent again . |
| 17 | I offered to do some jobs until the others returned . |
| 18 | How I managed to do that I do not know . |
| 19 | To bear and deny depression at the same time may seem like yet another paradox , but my diaries testify that somehow I managed to do both . |
| 20 | I went to do some work , attempting to photograph some ducks and mergansers that were sheltering from the sun . |
| 21 | One afternoon a week , I went to do some work at the Child Guidance Clinic , and Mavis looked after Shanti on these days . |
| 22 | And looked after it and I went to do this job for . |
| 23 | Well I had to do that agenda when Hugh was n't here , so |
| 24 | ‘ I had the kitchen stove which was nothing but steel : I had to do that down every morning till you could see yourself in it ; and whiten the hearth . |
| 25 | But erm I had to do that in between if Harry had n't got enough help . |
| 26 | I had to do that for O'level . |
| 27 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 28 | When I had to do that trip on my own . |
| 29 | I had to do that . |
| 30 | K. R. In that time , I had to do all the side streets , milking padlocks . |