Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A pleasant change from the heat of Mespot , but with a deal of other diversions that I found easy enough to take . |
| 4 | Sleep has left me and I feel that I have not long to live . |
| 5 | So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children . |
| 6 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 7 | ‘ And I got close enough to count them as they rode past . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But on my way through the old garden I had a strange feeling that something was wrong , and I ran back upstairs to check that Miss Havisham was all right . |
| 10 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 11 | If I last long enough to get to the air … . |
| 12 | If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house . |
| 13 | Then , fiercely , ‘ But if I had anywhere else to go , I would . ’ |
| 14 | Well Dorothy got er , some to knit something for Bryony and she actually got too much so if I do run out if I have n't enough to finish this er er vest , T-shirt summer top , whatever it 's called she 'll have some . |
| 15 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 16 | ‘ But I 've nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 17 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 18 | But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever . |
| 19 | ‘ I would be glad to leave it , but I have nowhere else to go . ’ |
| 20 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 21 | Paul starts to move the boats to the top of the falls whilst I run on ahead to talk to the police at the top of the falls with the nice man from the Northern Echo . |
| 22 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 24 | When I went round there to take the saw back she was er you know her little tail |
| 25 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 26 | Yes , she said but er when I went down there to check after you 'd gone , she said erm yours was erm the driest of them sort of thing . |
| 27 | I just caught a glimpse of you both through one of the windows , but Lewis had already started to come back inside when I went out there to fetch you back . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As I earned only enough to pay for my childminder my father paid my train fares . |