Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 2 | I asked to speak to the person in charge of the station . |
| 3 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 4 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 5 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 6 | Imagine my shock when , just as I 'd begun thumping the bottom of the big brown pot , I chanced to look inside the bin and there , half buried in rubbish , was Cymbeline 's red plastic teapot . |
| 7 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 8 | ‘ I agreed to stay until the morning . |
| 9 | I failed to turn on the light when the sky grew dark and heavy . |
| 10 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 11 | ‘ The fact that he took the 100m individual , when I could n't attempt the hat-trick because I failed to qualify for the event at the US trials through illness , is bound to increase interest when we get it together . |
| 12 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 13 | I suppose I had persuaded myself that sending men to prison was n't something I cared to do for the rest of my life . |
| 14 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 15 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 16 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 17 | So I got to stay with the dogs and |
| 18 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 19 | I got to stick with the President and all I can think about.is those two and what they 're up to . |
| 20 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 21 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 22 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 23 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 24 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 25 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 26 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 27 | I tried to reach for the phone to ring Howard , but my arm refused to move . |
| 28 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 29 | This was the question I tried to answer as the decade of the 1980s began . |
| 30 | Let's just say I tried to leave with the minimum of fuss . |