Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked to speak to Gina Buffon . |
| 2 | I waited for her to say something else , but she did n't , so I asked to speak to Toby . |
| 3 | I asked to come to Grendon , I did n't like it when i got here , it took a lot of getting used |
| 4 | ( I planned to return to Vancouver on the midnight ferry ) . |
| 5 | This emotion which , even as I planned to drive to Prague , while admitting only to liking you well enough to want to ease any problems that might arise , made me instruct Lubor … ’ |
| 6 | When I came over here I got to know about Kyrle Hall [ a Birmingham amateur club ] and went along there with my pumps and shorts and that was my introduction to boxing really . |
| 7 | Sandra you got time to sit , sit and do it with him , like I tried to do with Simon or |
| 8 | I tried to explain to Drew , but he just sent me off . ’ |
| 9 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 10 | ‘ It was 5.30 in the morning and I tried to reason with Otto by saying how could I possibly be drunk at that time . |
| 11 | I tried to talk to Branwell about it , but it was impossible . |
| 12 | I still had an enormous block when I tried to think of John as a hostage . |
| 13 | I tried to think like Holmes . |
| 14 | I tried to speak to Brian Clough but he would never take my calls . |
| 15 | ‘ I promised to return to Les Châtaigniers for lunch . ’ |
| 16 | I promised to stay at Morton school until Christmas , when St John would be able to find another teacher . |
| 17 | It was after the boy was born that I came to live in London . |
| 18 | I , I remember being stared at because I was wearing trousers when I came to live in Scotland forty four years ago ! |
| 19 | After the wedding I came to live in Baldersdale , at the next farm to Hannah . |
| 20 | She drew a deep breath and said quickly , ‘ I came to talk about Harriet . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ In October 1983 , I came to work for Cambridgeshire County Council as an Assistant Solicitor . |
| 22 | In 1965 I came to work with Basil as an art adviser in the West Riding after lecturing for eight years at the Froebel Institute in Roehampton . |
| 23 | So I affected to quail before Mr Sol 's power-drill rays . |
| 24 | At I prepared to return to Britain , several of my relatives gave me copies of their identity cards , the deed for their houses and even the ownership documents for their property . |
| 25 | It 's what I paid to go to Minorca |
| 26 | I happened to bump into Hindley Foster near Leicester Square . ’ |
| 27 | But yet I happened to say to Carole one night , she says no I love to see what I bloody own well I suppose it 's you 've got microwave and a wee oven or whatever |
| 28 | Indeed , when I happened to mention to Mme Guérigny that in England I bathed daily , she sniffed , making me feel there was something profligate and indecent in such luxury . |
| 29 | I turned to look at Sam but to my surprise he was not there . |
| 30 | Later I began to go to Althorp to do her hair and gradually became involved in her life . |