Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There I was being really good , ’ Leslie says , ‘ I 'd given up smoking seven months before I became pregnant to get it all out of my body . |
| 2 | ‘ I used to work so hard in the week I had no energy left to enjoy weekends and I became awful to live with . |
| 3 | The more I read , the more I became determined to try to produce something that had a good basis in theory , but that was pungent enough to counter the bland unsupported generalisations that seem so prevalent in the more practical end of the library and information science literature . |
| 4 | On reaching my eighth birthday , I became eligible to join the Juvenile Section of The Salisbury Public Library , something which I quickly did . |
| 5 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 6 | Finally , in order to have a word with the silent Cis , I asked Elfed to fetch Richard , who had been awaiting in the kitchen the result of the meeting . |
| 7 | I made ready to slip away down the passage . |
| 8 | Maybe it 's not activated — by which I mean ready to go off when a vessel passes over it — until the ticking stops . |
| 9 | at that church one she has learnt so much erm I mean this to speak French , now she speaking it in three weeks ! |
| 10 | And he adds : ‘ I remain determined to provide as much practical help and advice as possible to long-term unemployed people . ’ |
| 11 | But I sold that to help pay the mortgage . ’ |
| 12 | When I go for a night session I make sure to arrive well before darkness , usually around 7.30 p.m. or 8 p.m. in summer , when dusk does not fall until 10 p.m. or so . |
| 13 | If my chosen hookbait is bread then I make sure to use mashed bread in the groundbait mix . |
| 14 | He was glad when I got pregnant to start off with , but he 's changed . |
| 15 | I got straight to work . |
| 16 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 17 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 18 | Ten pound and twenty pound and twenty-five pound which apart from anything else I found easier to remember when filling out a form , but I think that may think it 's not worth doing . |
| 19 | ‘ I followed my instinct , it was an offer I found difficult to refuse . |
| 20 | Voting for Maastricht and hoping that the Tories can be beaten at a later date on the Social Chapter was a decision I found difficult to accept and I have done my homework on this issue . |
| 21 | He does n't shout or bark out orders and that cool approach was something I found difficult to come to terms with when I first arrived at Liverpool . |
| 22 | Thus , in spite of the large amount of flying experience I had accumulated overseas , I found that it was of little use to me back in the UK , I did find , however , that my seniority as an NCO seemed to attract functions that I found difficult to avoid . |
| 23 | ‘ So , I propose first to employ implicit honesty . |
| 24 | For this purpose , I propose first to discuss the several bloom shapes and forms , then the growth and habit forms and variations , and then progressively to pass on to the many breed and race classifications . |
| 25 | I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house . |
| 26 | I want first to say something nice about the Under-Secretary of State and , on the record , to thank him for his decision in the case of Younis Patel , who was in prison in Leicester for a number of months . |
| 27 | I want first to focus on the latter meaning , and to describe in some detail what teachers are talking about when they say they are stressed , or suffering from stress . |
| 28 | this , this , they only start from sort of like , there 's the house , and it goes half way up the garden , so I want fifty up at one side , and put fifty to go up other side , I want fifty to go across the garden , and they 're gon na go across the garden and cut the garden in half |
| 29 | ‘ But I want Sipotai to reach home safely . ’ |
| 30 | Yeah but sh he should I mean on the road , you should be able to just write in and say , I want this to happen . |