Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I schemed and schemed to get that key , but Irina was too clever for me . |
| 2 | And one day , with jarring abruptness , I was twenty-seven , and the little inner voice stopped jeering and sneering at every man I met and began to whimper and bleat . |
| 3 | I agreed and arranged to pick it up the next morning on the way . |
| 4 | " So am I. It was the last thing I expected or wanted to happen . " |
| 5 | I tried and tried to find out who Martha was . |
| 6 | I had never done anything like that in my life , but I found that having to do it was in the end very exciting because you have to rely on the Lord and he supplies help in unforgettable ways . |
| 7 | Twice I rose and tried to help her , but I seemed to be in a different dream . |
| 8 | In this book I pose and try to answer three questions : |
| 9 | I still could n't fathom why I did n't altogether trust the man , ‘ I must be off , ’ I muttered and returned to lim . |
| 10 | I turned and started to head for the dunes at a slow run . |
| 11 | The only artist I know that brings to mind that I think is absolutely brilliant is David Sheppard , You got a print on his works and its only one of a hundred prints , and even his prints are worth about a thousand pounds . |
| 12 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 13 | Here I alighted and began to walk into the wood in search of something . |
| 14 | Frankly , if I died and had to come back as anything I 'd be pretty naffed off . |
| 15 | In September 1977 , my girlfriend Lynn and I eloped and tried to get married at the Ali-Shavers bout . |
| 16 | Again , it highlighted something that , as a teacher , I knew but failed to utilize in other aspects of my work — that simple pictures and diagrams highlight the obvious more easily than paragraphs of words . |
| 17 | ‘ I know it sounds awful but I felt she would criticise what I did and how I looked or try to organise me . |
| 18 | I always carry the bag on my left shoulder so I can pull out clubs with my right hand , and I was about to pull out the driver when I hesitated and decided to see how the land lay . |
| 19 | ‘ I have always been determined and I think that helped to get me through . ’ |
| 20 | Yeah , he made a miraculous recovery today and I think that seems to point or to confirm what your , what your mum and dad was saying |
| 21 | As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep , she senses what I 'm doing , and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on to the top of her head , leaving me her bare nape to nestle in . |
| 22 | For while in New York , I learned that plans to build a virtually new Flushing Meadow complex , beneath the arrivals , rather than the unbelievably noisy take off flight path from La Guardia Airport , have been abandoned . |
| 23 | I scrape and save to support us both . |
| 24 | Do not do as I did and arrange to work only to find that the childminder changes her mind within the first few days . |
| 25 | I resigned and went to stay with Dhani 's family in Thailand . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , wool , ’ I answered and tried to explain the idea of tartan , the ‘ tribes ’ of Scotland with their foreign names . |
| 27 | I said that challenged to explain how he could mean the same , since he could n't conceivably experience the Sun in the sky on the Sun , he might produce an argument from analogy to justify the generalisation of time-of-day language to the Sun . |
| 28 | Er I had or trying to provoke us , and erm what our lads have been informed is rather than take a situation on like that , it 's better just to turn around and walk away . |
| 29 | I slept and woke to find the house quiet , settled from the anger that had shaken it . |
| 30 | I lit a cigarette as I waited and turned to find her leaning on the doorway , arms folded . |