Example sentences of "i [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I failed to realise for some considerable time the importance of commitment from the top down . |
| 2 | I got to hear of several healers , but there was one in particular towards whom I was subtly steered . |
| 3 | I got to think about this on my own . |
| 4 | I got to think about this . |
| 5 | Then I got to work with some hard green soap I 'd found beside the sink , washed my make-up off as best I could , examined my face by the light of the torch in the little mirror hanging there , then tucked myself in . |
| 6 | The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library |
| 7 | I tried to explain at that press conference and the only one who understood was Bridges , the only one . |
| 8 | Years later , when I tried to talk of this , |
| 9 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 10 | Coming in by train to Waverley I tried to identify with those tourists ‘ seeing ’ Edinburgh Castle for the first time . |
| 11 | I tried to think about this but did n't succeed . |
| 12 | So pressing his camera to my eye I tried to focus on this tanned , happy man , standing with one boot over the edge of a 200- or 300-foot drop , and the other on the edge of thin air . |
| 13 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 14 | It was only later when I came to reflect on this incident , that I recalled the man 's appearance . |
| 15 | The first thing I did when I came to live in this lovely place , was to take out a subscription for MKM . |
| 16 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 17 | If , by some appalling stroke of bad luck , he and I happened to bump into each other while we 're here — ’ He broke off . |
| 18 | As I began to reflect on this verse , I let its truth penetrate deep within me . |
| 19 | I never knew her young , but she has never grown older in the years since I began to sit with this hareem . |
| 20 | In the weeks that followed , I began to depend on that bird-like little figure for my happiness and new interest in life . ’ |
| 21 | In fact , with my spartan diet and my gentleman 's bag which could accommodate only the tiniest of souvenirs ( a freedom I thought , compared to others ' great domed rucksacks ) , I began to feel like some travelling ascetic , roaming through ‘ the vast cinema of sensation . ’ |
| 22 | I organized that at Conway Hall now , in most reference books my agent 's name is listed , and my agent got a call saying the minute I began to read from that book I would die . |
| 23 | I decided to sleep with this boy . |
| 24 | If I decided to act in that way , any regulation to amend the scheme would be subject to the affirmative resolution procedure . |
| 25 | ‘ I decided to smack into those issues head-on , ’ Jordan agrees . |
| 26 | I decided to work on these two things . |
| 27 | I decided to apply for some help , so my daughter Lilya ( Aliki ) and I wrote a letter to Andropov and Brezhnev , and I explained in these letters that what had been stolen was a large number of works from the collection that I had intended to give to the Tretyakov Gallery . |
| 28 | The door of his room was open , his desk was unlocked , and I decided to look at this memento . |
| 29 | ‘ She 's only been here a couple of times , when I needed to work on some papers very urgently . ’ |
| 30 | I needed to study for several months to make a woman monster successfully . |