Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] to [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 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They all went to the local comprehensive — which I wanted to but , because I passed my 11-plus I got sent to the grammar instead . |
| 6 | Dave , Lancashire region , on three nine seven , Chair , when I got elected to the Labour Council in Rochdale , I took a whip that I had , did what the policy was of the Rochdale D L P . |
| 7 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 8 | And so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 9 | I used to be a spooler , worked a machine , but I got moved to the samples about six years ago . |
| 10 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 11 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 12 | But I got promoted to the road roller and then into the power station so |
| 13 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |
| 15 | I shimmied shivering to the bedsit , slotted another shilling in the gas fire and reached for the knob on the third drawer of the tallboy . |
| 16 | That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him . |
| 17 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 18 | Not only that — they also thought , because I 'd gone to the grammar , that suddenly I was too snooty to be friends with them . |
| 19 | If I 'd gone to the rank inside , it would have been the railway police 's case . |
| 20 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 21 | And I 'd said to the And I 'd said to the dentist |
| 22 | And I 'd said to the And I 'd said to the dentist |
| 23 | He says Well you 're quite right n y I Cos I did n't think we You know I 'd said to the man already it 's quite possible I would n't be able to really take the stuff out of store for him . |
| 24 | the kitchen was piled up , I , I , Dinda took my suitcase upstairs , I 'd seen to the dog , he was very , very good in the car as you know er , I took my suitcase , I could n't get through the bedroom door , the bed clothes on the floor where it 's , where we 've had a sudden hot spell , he had n't folded them up |
| 25 | That night I watched television and did some paperwork , amending the maps to include the newly named Black Destroyer Hill , writing a brief description of what I 'd done to the rabbits and logging both the effects of the bombs that I 'd used and the manufacture of the latest batch . |
| 26 | But undeterred by background or family opinion , I 'd written to the BBC to let them know of my ambitions to be a broadcaster — and was dismissed without benefit of an interview . |
| 27 | So I 'd to go to the washing racks for fourpence a day . |
| 28 | ‘ A while ago I said I 'd listened to a thousand , but the figure 's probably closer now to 2000 , ’ says Jim . |
| 29 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 30 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |