Example sentences of "i [vb past] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but I asked a load to Phil 's dad and |
| 2 | So I made a joke-offering to God and sang satirically , with all the insincerity I could muster , the song which begins , ‘ This world is not my home . |
| 3 | So , I made a promise to myself that I 'd never be late with any deadlines . |
| 4 | ‘ I was spending money creatively ; I made a contribution to the family restaurant market , which is still in place , and which enabled people to have a very good value meal in enjoyable surroundings , for less money . |
| 5 | That day I made a vow to myself that I would return to Athens and run better . |
| 6 | little bits , little bits and I 'll buy you your tobacco Neil nothing much but little bits of something now if he were working and could give me the full sixty that is thirty for his room and thirty for his food so that I did n't have to worry about th actually paying for him but he was paying me Paul is going to pay me fifty that 's thirty pounds in , I made a rule to Paul that he is going to eat thirty pounds worth of food and there are only twenty pounds in my profit and then the other rule , a man called Alan this window cleaner he wants the room that I 'm in at the moment |
| 7 | Eventually I made a commitment to some edges , particularly the diagonals and verticals , carefully placing my principal vanishing point and then co-ordinating the parallel lines to this point on the horizon . |
| 8 | Oh it was glorious I made a note to myself actually , that I 'm only going to go out once a week for a proper shop , from a list , in the solar and the rest of the time I 'm going to go to the quite expensive little Robber 's Roe , round the corner from me . |
| 9 | I made an offer to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside that he may well recall . |
| 10 | I am not sure what the hon. Member for Worsley ( Mr. Lewis ) is trying to say , but although I made an offer to his hon. Friend the Member for Alyn and Deeside , the hon. Gentleman did not come to see me . |
| 11 | And I made sure I blabbed a bit to her , even contradicting in inessential details some of the earlier relations to the Colonel , so that he might think he was getting better quality intelligence this way . |
| 12 | I was just packing up my medical papers when I got a call to Ward 16 , now also a reception ward . |
| 13 | After my sandwich and a drink , I got a cab to my own office in Whitehall , and rang Seddon . |
| 14 | I have Miss , I got a trip to Magic . |
| 15 | However , when I tabled a question to that effect , the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Wells ( Mr. Heathcoat-Amory ) , answered by stating that , before the position could be changed , primary legislation would be required . |
| 16 | A short while ago I posed a question to the Daily Mirror about the method used by marine artists for putting in the mass of rigging in their paintings — is it put in by brush , pencil , or inks ? |
| 17 | how you can persist in being so utterly incompetent bewilders me , and so while indulging in a little light entertainment in the ZZAP ! offices ( brutally torturing the staff for being human ) I decided it was time I found a solution to the problem . |
| 18 | On 18 May 1989 , in Standing Committee B , I moved an amendment to the Children Bill , supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Monklands , West ( Mr. Clarke ) , which would have required all local authorities to appoint a children 's rights officer . |
| 19 | The second time I caught a bus to the coast . |
| 20 | At the end of the last article I promised a visit to Wales , to see whether the same geometric patterns existed in that part of the country . |
| 21 | So when the recent rains filled the gutters and left my back garden awash , I assumed an end to the ban might be at hand . |
| 22 | Amused by Mr Baker 's diplomatic skills , I composed a letter to Roald Dahl , and luckily by the end of July he had sent us a sensible letter of resignation . |
| 23 | I sneaked a glance to my left but all I could see was a rather attractive young nurse wheeling a chair-ridden white-haired old dear down the corridor towards us . |
| 24 | I booked a car to New York . |
| 25 | After the sun , sea and silicon of San Francisco , this is more how I imagined a festival to be . |
| 26 | He told The People : ‘ I dropped a line to Kevin offering him sympathy and encouragement . |
| 27 | ‘ I received a reply to a letter I wrote to the Duke of Edinburgh , president of the Playing Fields Association , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Even then , Valerie opted for living together first — but a year later I received an invitation to their wedding . |
| 29 | We first fished the South-west in the early 1960s when Ann and I paid a visit to Carsfad Reservoir , near New Galloway . |
| 30 | Then one day , just for old times ' sake , I paid a visit to Winston Street . |