Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 2 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 3 | He dumped his overnight bag with mine and I went out to tell the driver we were just coming . |
| 4 | Amazingly , we arrived unscathed in Wenceslas Square and I set off to find the Čedok offices to arrange accommodation . |
| 5 | She and I separated ( it was like trying to unpick a mangled shoelace ) and I staggered through to take the call . |
| 6 | Granpa told me to ‘ shhh ’ and did n't smile again until I went up to get the arithmetic prize , a box of coloured crayons that were damned-all use to anyone . |
| 7 | You build up the fire while I go out to milk the cows . |
| 8 | ‘ I suspected there had been an intruder so I made Mrs. Bonnard wait in the car while I came in to check the place out . |
| 9 | " I wanted to keep it because I did n't want to leave him while I went out to use the phone — assuming there 's one round here that works , which I doubt , " she said . |
| 10 | Make me a whole man before I go out to take the field with Wales in my hands . |
| 11 | But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over . |
| 12 | Causation or some of it might have come to an end just when I set out to snuff the candles , or never existed . |
| 13 | when , when I went in to work the other day , Pete says I do n't know about that , that Kenwood stuff |
| 14 | You can imagine the excitement when I reached out to open the case . |
| 15 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |