Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely go to her house and I do n't think she 's ever been to my flat , but our friendship is very much part of our working lives . |
| 2 | I rarely talk to my parents these days , or visit the family home . |
| 3 | Then I slowly got to my feet and they all started laughing happily as if I was n't dead after all . |
| 4 | After my own experiences I wo I would n't advice someone not to go to their G P , but firstly , I would advice them to contact the Eating Disorders Association er , because they are very helpful and they 're more supportive than any G P I 've ever come across . |
| 5 | ‘ I pushed the pram to the top of the street I was afraid they were following me but when I looked round there was nobody there so I just ran to my mum 's . ’ |
| 6 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 7 | I just said to my hubby this morning , I said , ‘ The sooner its the Sixth of January and we 've got a they decorations back up the loft and poked all they clogged-up pine needles out the Hoover tube with a Knitting needle and its back to auld claes and parritch the better pleased I 'll be . ’ |
| 8 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 9 | John , could I just come to your brother . |
| 10 | ‘ Manchester 's best kept secret ’ is one current fave , though The Word 's Terry Christian , fatuous even by his own lofty standards , referred to them as ‘ Manchester 's best psychedelic band ’ ; the memory of which grieves Martin still ( ‘ I just turned to our guitarist and said ‘ What the f— is he talking about ? ’ ’ |
| 11 | Please give my best regards to your Uncle Charles ; |
| 12 | Look what I already did to your car . ’ |
| 13 | I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 . |
| 14 | ‘ I always trust to my instincts , ’ he began , his voice still soft . |
| 15 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
| 16 | I now refer to our objections . |
| 17 | " Having given you the best years of my life , I now appeal to your justice and well-known liberality for a retiring pension , humbly requesting that in the event of my death the same may be continued to my child for his education till he attains 15 years of age , he being now in his 7th year . " |
| 18 | I often say to my friend — I wish I could retire and live here all the time . ’ |
| 19 | I admit that I have been known to curse on occasion and I often talk to my machine telling it ‘ You will not beat me so you 'd better start behaving ! ’ |
| 20 | I even spoke to my son and he did n't know who I was . ’ |
| 21 | As I warily got to my feet I felt a compulsion to retrace my steps in the direction of Jock 's trench . |
| 22 | I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied . |
| 23 | But I never listened to what God really wanted me to do . |
| 24 | ‘ Aoew , ’ she replied , ‘ I never listen to them things ! ’ |
| 25 | But I never rise to their teasing . |
| 26 | ‘ I never went to my room ! ’ |
| 27 | I never knew to whom Jean-Claude spoke or with whom he made rendezvous . |
| 28 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 29 | From that time on , I never spoke to my mother of my father-never again , till I was eighteen leaving for France , to study there … |
| 30 | I think that you would find them excellently suited to your purpose , but of course it is not my business to force your decision . |