Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | right I want to see the homework , those that have n't got it etcetera . |
| 2 | Luckily I managed to grab the abseil rope firmly enough with both hands to stop ) . |
| 3 | Rather I wish to use the experience of West Ham as a means to examine the nature of working-class political intervention . |
| 4 | Suddenly I wanted to hear the sound of human voices and to feel the warmth and comfort of loved ones . |
| 5 | But apparently I have to feel The Bump three or four times a day or be found guilty of Not Being Involved as a Father , or worse still , of this darkly Freudian offence called Denial . |
| 6 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps I wanted to see the windows again . |
| 8 | Perhaps I tried to force the pace . |
| 9 | So I went to see the latest one , Mrs Houston she was called . |
| 10 | So I went to take the call in some confusion — confusion made worse by haste when Alexander told me it was the Prime Minister . |
| 11 | So I went to visit the plants for him , went to check , in his memory who can do so no longer , whether the recurrent spring miracle of the Welsh mountains was still taking place now that the man who had seemed almost to stand for its yearly renewal had gone . |
| 12 | So I had to act the tortured , self-blaming child , and Eric had to comfort me while my father brooded . |
| 13 | So I had to arrange the funeral and so on . |
| 14 | And so I had to drag the coal scuttle up there , I was faced with that , and chop the sticks , which I 'd never done before . |
| 15 | So I had to make the speech best as I could and it went down all right I think . |
| 16 | One for only ninety nine P , so I had to make the money up they got |
| 17 | I still had another two masterclasses to play in , and so I had to practise the other two pieces which I would play . |
| 18 | So I began to visit the civil hospital which had been taken over by the military for wounded and sick men from the British forces further south . |
| 19 | So I try to put the younger ones off acquiring one until they 're older . |
| 20 | Yes , you must n't re-freeze things , so I try to make the sandwiches |
| 21 | Yes , yeah , cos now , that , see she 's not here really for , for me to come and pay her so I have to take the money down to her house now . |
| 22 | Chairman I think I have to offer an apology to members and Mr in particular and the town of Bungay with a rather erm over which sentence expressing the press release , I mean we are continually trying to issue news items , press releases , progress reports and anything we 're doing and usually the press are very good and quoted for a basis , sometimes they get it wrong and mangle it up with some bits of disaster , on this occasion that is not the case , the , the actual press report did determine the phraseology used in my in lease them so I have to accept the responsibility for the phrase to act of your recommended this morning so it down sake , could abandon ideas which they can buy it , of course those crazy ideas used in and out of the court is what matters . |
| 23 | And so I decided to patronise the famous Café de la Paix ; but having little money and no head for alcohol , limited myself to ordering Perrier before lunch , and sat at a table on the pavement , watching the world go by . |
| 24 | It is foolish to departmentalise in this way , and so I want to blur the distinctions . |
| 25 | I says , So I want to cut the ordeal short , I says , and I 'll go on next week . |
| 26 | So I wanted to see the girl I had worked with because she must have known what happened to my stuff . |
| 27 | So I wanted to raise the profile er of the Manchester office er and er in the north western community . |
| 28 | Erm I 'm not sure what time yet but erm it 's more likely to be sort of just before lunch or just sort of or maybe just after lunch or round four o'clock I try to keep the younger ones earlier so they 're not you know it 's not |
| 29 | Whilst relieved by the offer of the olive-branch , none the less I had to consider the implications . |
| 30 | Furthermore I hope to share the experiences gained in this expedition with those around me so that they may realise that they can make a difference , however small it may be , if they choose . |