Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The producer , a blase+ young woman , toyed with a lettuce leaf and an olive , but on the rare occasions I am asked out to lunch I generally do without breakfast , so I made up for her and discussed the shooting schedule ( you soon pick up the jargon ) with the director . |
2 | By the time I am sitting down to breakfast I ask myself , ‘ Where would I go ? ’ ’ |
3 | ‘ I am going over to Stone later on to change our Mother 's accumulator . |
4 | I am going back to Moray before the excitement begins . ’ |
5 | By the end of the evening I certainly wished the Kings Head was my local hotel restaurant , and I 'm looking forward to dining again at the Kings Head next time I have cause to visit Richmond . |
6 | Plus , I 've still got to write something witty to drag home , if I 'm to go back to employment that is . |
7 | I often wear a towelling dressing gown when I 'm invited out to dinner , ’ said Alex . |
8 | ‘ If that 's what comes o' supportin' lor'n'order , ’ complained the Mate gloomily , ‘ I 'm goin' back to piracy . ’ |
9 | I 'd trained myself to have no feelings — yet suddenly I 'm coming back to life . |
10 | ‘ Only for a tiny tiny second because then I 'm dashing off to work . ’ |
11 | ‘ Yow can turn yer tap off , I 'm going up to bed and you , Katie , better get off too , ’ he said , handing me a saucer with a stub of candle on it . |
12 | I 'm going up to reception . |
13 | And now I 'm going down to granny . |
14 | Now , if you do n't mind , captain , I 'm going back to bed . ’ |
15 | I 'm going back to bed . ’ |
16 | Mummy sit down , I 'm going back to school in about an hour and a half and you 're flying off upstairs . |
17 | ‘ I 'm going back to sea , ’ he said later . |
18 | I 'm going back to work . ’ |
19 | I think I 'm going back to college in September , take a nursing course . |
20 | " I 'm going out to lunch , " Sara said , , " to the Fairfax barbecue for Sandra 's birthday . " |
21 | " I 'm going out to tea , " said Lizzie some time during the meal , " if you do n't mind . " |
22 | Because , I 'm responding directly to accident books , and similar conditions . |
23 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
24 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
25 | I was referring not to press reports , but to my conversation with the gentleman concerned . |
26 | ‘ This time an X-ray revealed the damage and I was packed off to hospital for surgery . ’ |
27 | I was hoping not to mention this , but since raised it , we 'll have to . |
28 | So I was trying not to talk . |
29 | I was taken out to dinner on the day of my arrival , and yesterday there was a ‘ coquetel ’ ( cocktail party ) after the inaugural ceremony , which contained a lot of unintelligible speeches in Portuguese . |
30 | One night in late July I was taken out to supper by Ian Gow , the Prime Minister 's Parliamentary Private Secretary . |