Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At first I planned to stay in hospital with Jessica , but this has been so much better . |
| 2 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 3 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 4 | I tried to show in chapter 4 that such events may have happened , on a geological time scale , very quickly indeed . |
| 5 | ‘ Even as a little kid I used to gaze in motorcycle shop windows and wish I had something like this , ’ says hell for leather Jackie , from Marske near Redcar . |
| 6 | I did n't want to disturb the family at a moment like this so I came to check in person . |
| 7 | I know what I forgot to get in town . |
| 8 | I began to work in steel mills when I was seventeen to support my education . |
| 9 | After reading your All I want is a room somewhere , I decided to write in case any of your readers were considering a home to Carla . |
| 10 | I decided to specialise in patio pot plants but nothing thrived , and I 've just discovered that woodlice have invaded the pots and even eaten away the linings of wall baskets . |
| 11 | I guess I needed to fall in love with something . |
| 12 | It 's just that I needed to get in touch with my feelings . ’ |
| 13 | I commenced to talk in English , whereupon he said , ‘ Speak in Burmese . ’ |
| 14 | I walked in and there were twelve fellas sitting in this room and I had to sing in front of them all . |
| 15 | So I had to wait in suspense . |
| 16 | I had to sit in silence for twenty minutes with him and the weird Indian music . |
| 17 | ‘ It meant I had to stay in character for the five weeks between the two periods of works . |
| 18 | I had to stay in camp next day as there was strong opposition to my going out shooting . |
| 19 | I had to stay in bed for two weeks after this , before I felt well enough to meet people again . |
| 20 | I had to stay in prison for a couple of weeks before going to an approved school in Hayes , Middlesex . ’ |
| 21 | If I had to undress in front of them , I 'd be wondering what they were thinking about my body — ‘ Do they think I 'm anorexic , or just plain thin ? |
| 22 | ‘ What happened was this : a dog ran out in front of me as I was leaving the car park , and I had to swerve in order to avoid it . |
| 23 | And of course I had to admit in front of everyone that I did n't . |
| 24 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 25 | If we were to take the Ramblers Association 's argument to its logical conclusion , every train on the east coast main line would be preceded by a man on foot , carrying a red flag , in case someone wanted to walk in front of the train . |
| 26 | That was the plan , but the morning 's press was full of extravagant reports of the ‘ cuts ’ I intended to make in health service manpower . |
| 27 | When I came to the last two years of school , I wanted to specialize in mathematics and physics . |
| 28 | ‘ — and I wanted to get in touch with them , anyway , and … well … ’ |
| 29 | I wanted to stay in bed this morning . |
| 30 | A collection of such material should enhance our knowledge of the factors which contributed to change in law and society . |