Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course , I 'ad to 'ang about a bit until I saw yer go out , and afterwards I met 'im at the Elephant an' Castle . |
| 2 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 3 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 4 | I tried to tidy up a bit when I first came to work here , but I soon found out I was wasting my time . |
| 5 | Desperately I tried to hold down the rising sickness I felt about the theft of my writing to listen to all he was telling . |
| 6 | I tried to take over the kitchen , but in this I was thwarted by my father who had his own ideas about food , and who would keep interfering and making a mess , whereas I preferred to clear away and wash up as I went along . |
| 7 | I tried to crush up a salt tablet in a cup and dissolve it in the water but she moaned when I held the cup to her lips and tried to turn her head away . |
| 8 | I tried to separate out the harmonies in the snoring . |
| 9 | I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around . |
| 10 | The hospital had a flower shop inside its main entrance and I subbed Fenella a tenner to get a decent bunch of flowers ( I knew I should have told them about their pot plant ) while I tried to chat up the nurse on reception . |
| 11 | As well as observing the score 's incredible organization of its thematic riches — ‘ I tried to work out a little table of leitmotifs and I got past 70 , which is amazing in an opera ’ — Maazel discovered in rehearsal just how well thought out Puccini 's orchestration actually is . |
| 12 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 13 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 14 | Playing with the selectors challenged my mathematics as I tried to work out the exact number of available tones , but let's just say there should be something here for virtually every style of player . |
| 15 | ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’ |
| 16 | Though we no longer went out together in the evenings , I promised to keep up the pretence that we did . |
| 17 | These notes were invaluable when I came to write up the results of the study . |
| 18 | Halfway through my wash , I happened to glance up an notice one particularly well-hung lad studying my privates with a look of some amusement . |
| 19 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 20 | Standing motionless , a yard inside the room , I began to pick up a strange hissing noise . |
| 21 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 22 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 23 | I was thinking about life , the universe and how much I liked Kim Carnes 's voice ( a voice that makes you regret moving to filter cigarettes ) on the tape-deck when I began to conjure up a mental picture of Billy Tuckett . |
| 24 | Leaving the heat and the nearly finished bridehouse , I returned to soak up the last of a cool , green English summer . |
| 25 | I determined to stamp out the French ‘ flu before it spread . |
| 26 | To the right is one of several photocopies of the bride , complete in outline , on which I worked to sort out the background composition in more detail , especially the position of the patterned arch on the carpet backdrop , which corresponds with the curve of the headcloth material embroidery at the bottom left . |
| 27 | I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done . |
| 28 | I decided to sit out the recession by selling the remaining 16 years on my lease and moving home to Crouch End in North London . |
| 29 | The first year of my research made up my pilot study and from that I decided to carry out a full scale research project . |
| 30 | I read in an old Practical Fishkeeping an article on setting up a South American general community , this set me thinking and I decided to set up a South American Catfish community with a view to keeping some of the more readily-available , but hard to breed catfish and to provide them with the optimum conditions and numbers to hopefully have some breeding success . |