Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came here today to have a look but I did n't think it would affect me the way it has . |
| 2 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 3 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 4 | I came out here to have a little fun skiing quietly round , and here you are , attempting to barge your way into my life all over again . |
| 5 | It is without any pleasure that I seek once more to call the attention of the House to the problems faced by Derbyshire police force . |
| 6 | ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion . |
| 7 | So it was that I set out laboriously to catalogue the very schema of my own sanity , to list exhaustively the full range of my personal habits . |
| 8 | At most I get just enough to wet the bottom of the collection cup , and sometimes none for more than a week . |
| 9 | ‘ I wo n't let it happen — now get your hands off me before I scream loud enough to wake the guards at the Chinese border ! ’ |
| 10 | And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water . |
| 11 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 12 | The proof of the pudding as we all know is in the eating , and I thought where better to sample the pudding than at RAF Uxbridge . |
| 13 | When I went round there to take the saw back she was er you know her little tail |
| 14 | I do so again to counter the growing myth that Teesside is becoming some sort of earthly paradise a wonderland where industry and nature have achieved perfect harmony . |
| 15 | ‘ As you can see from the state of this place , I have someone call in regularly to keep an eye on it . |
| 16 | But then , when I come to think and ask myself what made me like this , I have n't far to seek the answer . |
| 17 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 18 | As I refused so soon to repeat the horrors of the afternoon , the taxi ride from the Olympik to Nove Mesto ( the New Town ) was a real treat . |
| 19 | ‘ It is much to be regretted , that the owner of the Purse Crag should have cut down the beautiful trees , which served so wonderfully to enrich the prospects on this side of the water . |
| 20 | Some sociologists , strongly influenced by American sources , became converted to ethnomethodology , which set out completely to recast the objectives of sociological enquiry ( see pp. 94–7 ) . |
| 21 | In Britain the inner city provides an analytical empty vessel which serves well rhetorically to provide a rationale for a disparate set of political projects , not only those of racial subordination but also far fetching social reforms . |
| 22 | It is preceded by a prologue ( Genesis 1–11 ) , consisting of ancient records and traditions , which serve not only to introduce the main themes of the narrative but also to relate them to God 's purposes in the world of fallen men , of divided nations and of a created order which was originally good . |
| 23 | Rather however than acknowledge that the Irish state , which refused any longer to play the Commonwealth game and declared itself a republic , was therefore a foreign country , Britain proceeded to divide the world not as hitherto into two portions — British subjects and aliens — but into three — British subjects , aliens and Irish . |
| 24 | Later , brain-fatigue smearing her concentration as she tried yet again to make the balance positive : I 'm not wrong . |
| 25 | Fifteen minutes into the second half , the ball was played out of defence , down the left by Rob Madgwick to Tony Clarke and his cross found Joe O'Shea who headed in decisively to end a splendid three-man move and put Millers level . |
| 26 | She stooped rather stiffly to offer the boy her cheek . |
| 27 | She thawed out sufficiently to allow a wintry suggestion of a smile to appear . |
| 28 | Ballymena and Antrim had more good wins through John McAdorey in the 100m and Eddie King who finished very strongly to take the 800 in one minute 52.65 . |
| 29 | It is Christian Lacroix who seems most acutely to express the spirit of the age . |
| 30 | It makes me wonder too , if those who decided so quickly to close the homes examined the reasons why there were so many vacancies . |