Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] to the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class .
2 ‘ I could n't go , so I went to the second night .
3 This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London .
4 When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’
5 But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’
6 When I came to the last two years of school , I wanted to specialize in mathematics and physics .
7 Then when I came to the third I did not like it .
8 When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ .
9 When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated .
10 Yet when I awake to the next day and my leaden legs , the flat is dark with disrepair — the light in the fridge has gone out , the milk is off .
11 A quiver of anguish passed along my spine as I came to the last dish .
12 The smell of burning plastic stayed in my nose and the bright glare of the burning mixture danced in my eyes as I hurried to the next hole , glancing at my watch as I did so .
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