Example sentences of "i [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only to Pam that I admitted to feeling guilty and ashamed of the wave of relief I felt at her funeral , as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders . |
| 2 | This sort of behaviour is very irritating and eventually I resorted to giving him a kick . |
| 3 | Since Karen Parsons was denied me , I resorted to polishing up my French with Thérèse Racquin , but the moment I settled down to read Lynn would flop down near me and solicit my views on waste recycling or food additives . |
| 4 | ‘ I got to glancing through the ledgers , and before I knew it , the time had flown . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Next I got to wonderin' where it 'd be most likely to come out . |
| 6 | I mean I got to thinking if I ca n't find any I 'm dead . |
| 7 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 8 | Which sounded fine until I got to doing it . |
| 9 | Then when the Globe was after the same guy , I got to figuring . ’ |
| 10 | And he revealed : ‘ We met by accident just recently and I got to talking to him about Indy . |
| 11 | ‘ See , I got to thinkin' about what the chink said when he showed you the firebombs . |
| 12 | The more I thought about her , the nearer I got to beating off about her now . |
| 13 | Before I first met ye ’ right , I expected to fockin' hate you . ’ |
| 14 | Mum I want to cuddled ! |
| 15 | I said that I had had rather more than that , and I referred to having had about 800 , the large majority of which were tear-out newspaper slips , and a large majority of those would have been influenced by the leaflet , the Labour party ’ Standard ’ , with its misleading , scaremongering , alarmist nonsense . |
| 16 | I woke to knocking . |
| 17 | I came to sitting on the sofa still holding the broken pot in my hand . |
| 18 | When I came to planning the circuit I realised there would actually have to be two routes — a high level one , leading over the crest of the fells , and a low level alternative for unfavourable weather . |
| 19 | ‘ I object to having idiots used as go-betweens . |
| 20 | I object to paying for it because it does nah do anything for me . |
| 21 | Because I object to paying that much for milk ! |
| 22 | It 's rather interesting that the only two management er training courses I did last year , were er stress management and time management and I seem to cocked them both up |
| 23 | ‘ I have permanently itchy feet — an affliction which I attribute to having spent most of my childhood in Africa . |
| 24 | But I 'm not sure that I 'd be the best person to judge whether I turned to writing by way of compensation or not , though I can see that a serious death like that would lead to a world that was whole being broken . |
| 25 | I graduated to doing the mixed grills . |
| 26 | And the thing that I did say to June once was erm , you know , when I began to courting and seeing all the girls in the pretty little dresses and things , Marks and Spencer 's had just got clubs going and that , you know . |
| 27 | And so I resort to buying bottled water . |
| 28 | I resort to removing many from the aquarium by hand or with a syphon tube — but it is a constant battle to control their population explosions . |
| 29 | Alas , although I can read it , the nearest I get to delivering any coherent message is a faded ‘ Share the world ’ T-shirt with tigers on it , and trousers which certainly look recycled . |
| 30 | There 's blood in your body , and I get to thinking about what would happen if your blood froze . |