Example sentences of "[vb past] i [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 2 | The following May I called him , got through his secretary by saying Mr. Jones asked me to call at this office , which was more or less true , erm , so I got through to him , and said , my name is Ricky Elliot , we met at the N E C , you asked me to give you a call this month about time management training . |
| 3 | Er he 's gone to Barnsley , cos they asked me to ask for this , gone to Barnsley . |
| 4 | Erm the following the the last meeting of the committee , erm the matter was er raised by your Chairman and er he asked me to send to all of you er a copy of an extract from the erm Commissions Report relating to Derbyshire and a copy of a Department of the Environment press release of the twenty second of October which refers to one or two things that er David Curry had said about strategic planning and that was sent out to all members of the committee on the twenty second of November and erm n not expecting you to have brought back with you or to have remembered exactly what it said , perhaps I can just erm refer to the , the options for erm strategic planning that were outlined by Mr Curry in that press release and i the er erm er paper that he had delivered . |
| 5 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 6 | Finally , I think the issue which more than any other led me to break with pure separatism , was women 's compassion . |
| 7 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 8 | Nerves got the better of me and only when Les Cox stopped me to go for another take did I realise I 'd got my letters mixed up and had inadvertently said : ‘ Will you switch these sans off please ? |
| 9 | My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed . |
| 10 | As a student I supplemented my grant by joining the Officer Training Corps , which not only brought me many good friends but also allowed me to participate in various outdoor activities such as abseiling , pot-holing , parachuting and canoeing . |
| 11 | One of them , a Sikh woman in her late forties , encouraged me to write about those duties which a husband should fulfil . |
| 12 | My definition of harmful treatment would embrace not just treatment that exposed me to risk without any hope of compensating benefit but treatment of unproved efficacy that diverted me from having other treatments that were of proved value . |
| 13 | Two recent examples from my own constituency — and which prompted me to think of this idea — illustrate the advantage of giving people this freedom . |
| 14 | Maybe I mentioned about the fillings coming out on this side of my mouth and at the back , so I ca They took it out in my living room and hypnotized me to forget , hypnotized walking about in my sleep with it , to sleep , got me in the chair and done it , got out of the house , programmed me to go to that dentist in , which I did do instead of going to Mr at . |
| 15 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 16 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 17 | Similarly , my stay in the guest house in Hyderabad , though somewhat less pleasant , enabled me to keep in close touch with the staff and students of the CIEFL . |
| 18 | So for the meanwhile I continued with my ritualised observances , obsessively counting the number of steps it took me to walk to any given location , carefully avoiding the cracks in the pavement for fear that the bears of the id might get me , and attending to my bodily functions with the pure metrical devotion of a sadhu . |
| 19 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 20 | Several times while I was at Magdalen he had me to dine at All Souls with its distinguished Fellows . |
| 21 | ‘ You left me to cope with this alone , ’ Ari said accusingly . |
| 22 | They wanted me to go on casual . |