Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got home to find Kenneth hunched over his desk engrossed in a pile of newly purchased books on the subject of lymphoma and a medical dictionary to help him understand the terminology . |
| 2 | A little awkwardly she explained , ‘ I was going to wait until I got home to tell Paul that our engagement was a mistake . |
| 3 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 4 | I wandered off to find Jack Mason and my parents and saw Toby , who was obviously heading for the Press tent , the conference with the winner , and several post-tournament drinks . |
| 5 | And I stopped up to watch snooker and it went on until after twelve |
| 6 | I learnt how to make shoes out of brown paper . |
| 7 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 8 | I learnt how to make fish , and fruit , and a piece of meat out of wood and coloured paper . |
| 9 | ‘ You really believe that I came here to cause trouble , do n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | I came here to talk deal . |
| 11 | I came here to prevent scandal , Dacre , not to start it . |
| 12 | ‘ I came up to visit Johanna in Syon and made enquiries . |
| 13 | You know if I came in to see Kim , your room , we 'd never get anything done . |
| 14 | Sheila Malanszak , whose house overlooks the sprawling factory at Castleford , West Yorkshire , said : ‘ I raced outside to see debris being hurled into neighbouring fields . |
| 15 | I turned around to see Mr Lu playing what I thought was his third shot . |
| 16 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 17 | Still with no instructions , by trial and error , I discovered how to do welts , Fisherman 's rib and even racking , but I still knew nothing about tension squares . |
| 18 | And then I , then I popped down to see James . |
| 19 | Last Sunday I popped in to see Peter Sam on the Talyllyn Railway , writes JAKE RAYMOND . |
| 20 | ‘ I stormed round to see Mike Slide — he 's the new head of Topical Features — and asked him outright if it was true . |
| 21 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 22 | I woke early , and when I looked out of the window , I saw two men examining our boat , but I decided not to wake Herbert or Startop , who needed their rest after rowing all the previous day . |
| 23 | ‘ I decided not to play rugby this term . |
| 24 | So , as my whiskers grew , I settled down to watch France beat Brazil in an exciting football match , and enjoy one channel entirely devoted to children , where understanding was universal despite the language . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I needed desperately to get hold of a copy of the book . |
| 27 | I called in to see Dad before coming here and while I was there an insurance investigator called Tom O'Neill came to see him . |
| 28 | So as we were going along she was just going into the paper shop and she was on her way up to the one o'clock bus , so I called in to see Jackie and had a coffee and then we come home . |
| 29 | I knew I had bad eating habits when I started secretly to buy sweets from several different shops and ensure the wrappers were well hidden from my boyfriend . |
| 30 | You just take one , I just my pal had a bad or something and she was prescribed er a se , a certain kind of sleeping tablet , Tamazapam and just I started in to say amounts up to twenty five at the end of the , do you know what I mean ? |