Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was spinning , I thought I was gon na jump off the roof , I rang my G P and said , you never told me I had to decrease this dose , hang on just get through the weekend , |
| 2 | I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one . |
| 3 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 4 | This guy persuaded me I had to adopt that attitude in the Tests as well . |
| 5 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 6 | Denmark , which I visited to explore this very subject , uses this process . |
| 7 | There was a carpet into which you seemed to sink several inches , an ornate desk in the style of the French Empire , a huge couch , upholstered in grey and scarlet , and a number of big soft armchairs in the same pattern . |
| 8 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 9 | But her abiding passions were medieval history and archaeology which she continued to study all her life . |
| 10 | Simultaneously , two overweight , breathless and slightly tipsy men who were descending the station steps saw the train moving out and broke into a run , during which they managed to overtake half of a 66ft. long Mk. 1 coach . |
| 11 | More mundanely , most likely , prepare to have the family for which they had to wait many wearing years . |
| 12 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 13 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 14 | But in the end their greatest impact was the way in which they helped to change most people 's way of lite and in so doing changed much of the landscape . |
| 15 | Before setting out such facts and relating to the sentences on the individual offenders as are material for the purposes of these appeals , it is necessary first to describe the procedure followed by the Secretary of State in exercising his power under section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , and the steps by which he came to adopt that procedure . |
| 16 | Kalm was an excellent observer , a meticulous recorder and made the most of his time at the Physic Garden , which he judged to rival those of Paris and Leyden at the time , and believed it to ‘ overgo them in North American plants ’ . |
| 17 | What struck me was the way in which he seemed to have little difficulty not merely in coming down to my level but in entering into my feelings , as if I were telling him about the most natural matter in the world . |
| 18 | He had brought a zinc bath with him which he hoped to fill that afternoon . |
| 19 | There was a long silence , during which he decided to leave this unpromising subject . |
| 20 | The Trotskyist movement reflected the traditions of the pre-Revolutionary Russian Socialist groups , from which it seemed to draw much of its inspiration and terminology . |
| 21 | ‘ Since I left you I managed to trace another ex-employee of INCUBUS . |
| 22 | I want to know who you got to do that with ? |
| 23 | See so it 's just by learning the pattern it 's like say if you were you were playing football every time somebody every time the ball came towards you you had to learn all about the way the ball goes Oh it 's you know it 's slowing down cos the grass is wet and it 's curling and things like that . |
| 24 | Well did I tell you we had to do this , I did tell you , we had to do this erm competition ? |
| 25 | But Town take delight in proving people wrong … mind you they had to fight all the way against Wolves and there must have been times when they wondered whether they were going the right way … |
| 26 | And we appreciate how honoured we are to be among the select few who they chose to share this very special occasion with them . |
| 27 | It 's something I wanted to do all my life . |
| 28 | For once there was no one you wished to see less of , even when standing for six hours . |
| 29 | And er we the tea the class All the boys It were all boys er we we had to carry Each carry a chair up to the new school . |
| 30 | Admiration was something he seemed to need most of all . |