Example sentences of "[conj] i go [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal .
2 There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p .
3 So I went down to the canal .
4 It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport .
5 By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel .
6 Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods .
7 It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique .
8 I du n no what to do now so I go up to the big electric sign board and have a look at it .
9 I du n no what to do , so I go back to the caff and have a look in the window .
10 ‘ Sergeant Jennings here will make some tea , then she 'll stay with you while Mr Morgan and I go over to the stables .
11 ‘ So , in the meantime — ’ it was almost as though he 'd read her mind ! ‘ — I suggest that you and I go back to the party .
12 A love song on the crackly Holiday Inn radio which the maid always switches on as her final flourish after she 's done the room ( Hugo and I go down to the pool and swim and use the sauna while we wait for her to finish ) or a pop song on the telly as Hugo and I eat our continental breakfast ( orange juice , coffee , a croissant and a Danish each ) , too languid even to stretch out for the remote control and switch it off — will make tears come to my eyes : move me with the desire to say , You do love me , do n't you !
13 Cos that really got up , up my back when the , I mean tho ai n't a ba , bad bunch of old boys but I normally go down but they they clear and once we 've done our work before dinner break they all clear off and I go down to the and then I sort of walk back more or less behind them you know , to the break like and as I go past the club , I go and wash my hands , they go straight in , I go and wash my hands and I walk past the and er we should go to dinner at quarter to twelve and I go past , it 's one minute past quarter to twelve so cos when we go in there you see quarter past twelve due to go back I always give them two or three minutes and I say that 's it , that 's , ah we was late coming in , I said no you were n't !
14 The bar was full , I could see that through the saloon window and I went round to the yard at the rear .
15 My wife and I went up to the pay booth .
16 He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary .
17 Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft .
18 I told the co-pilot to take over and I went back to the radio room and saw Charlie with blood all over his head and the front of his flight suit ’ .
19 It was now early July , and I went back to the Usk to film the silver-grey mink .
20 He hung up and I went back to the salon .
21 Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street .
22 And there was a lot of space between the hut and the door and the wind took me and flung me right up against the tank and I went down to the ground and crawled on me hands and knees .
23 there and I went down to the at and he said we got your lintel in mate , do you want to take it ?
24 A call of nature interrupted my pleasure and I went out to the necessary house behind the tavern , nothing more than a hole in the ground enclosed by a shabby wooden palisade and a door which bolted from the inside .
25 ‘ And I 'm frightened that if I go down to the cellars I might die . ’
26 If I go back to the diagonal layer , quite often I get a question .
27 It 's nothing , this is the way I deal with it , if I treat this job , if I go in to a shop or ask for any service I expect , you know , the same that I give , and basically speaking then I 'm pleased .
28 " If I went over to the hotel now and had supper , that would give you about an hour to find a man and get ready .
29 They could n't make emergency payments themselves , but if I went down to the social security office …
30 I — think if I had some fresh air today I should feel much better , if I went down to the sea , perhaps . ’
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