Example sentences of "i to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And now you 're a magic carpet that can take me to paradise , ’ she said , not feeling in the least foolish for saying something so idiotic . |
| 2 | I hope you do n't expect me to foot it . |
| 3 | They taught me to ollie and stuff and I really liked it and kept going and never stopped . |
| 4 | That 's why they sent me to school — cos I 'm handicapped . |
| 5 | Dear Grandfather , I am very much indebted to you for sending me to school , and especially to my present Teachers , who have greatly contributed to my improvement , but to you is due all the knowledge I possess . |
| 6 | I heard later from the servants that he had spoken to Mrs Reed about me , and that she had agreed immediately to send me to school . |
| 7 | But days and weeks passed , and Mrs Reed still said nothing about sending me to school . |
| 8 | Send me to school soon , Mrs Reed . |
| 9 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 10 | Takes me to school everyday . |
| 11 | Which brings me to money . |
| 12 | At once she bereaves me to money and cunt . |
| 13 | But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’ |
| 14 | Somebody phoned an ambulance and was told that it would take between an hour and an hour and a half to arrive , so Derek volunteered to drive me to Casualty at Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth , forty-five miles away . |
| 15 | After that , the doctor sent me to casualty , where a surgeon made a two-inch-long incision on the top of my head , but could n't find the beast . |
| 16 | I called him in Aswan that afternoon , I said , " Majesty , do you want me to cone ? " he said , " Come at once . " |
| 17 | Let me say straight away that I am far from being a male chauvinist ( many of my girlfriends over the years have been females ) , indeed the very first person to introduce me to canoeing was Marianne Tucker who subsequently represented England in the 1960 Olympics . |
| 18 | In turn I took some of them back with me to Cliff Top . |
| 19 | The man told me to daughter so that they I was being kidnapped . |
| 20 | My mind is full of dark thoughts and evil yearnings , terrible images which move me to wickedness , as if to some obscure crime which perhaps I have committed already — ’ |
| 21 | For more than twenty years you have advised me to be cautious , to consider the full implications of my actions , but now , suddenly , you counsel me to rashness . ’ |
| 22 | She certainly reduced me to size . |
| 23 | She turned to him and smiled coolly : " You would n't like me to size you up , would you ? " |
| 24 | He lay face down beside me , not knowing that I was now painfully aware that the threads which bound me to home and the inevitable marriage had snapped once and for all . |
| 25 | Just realised that Gavin is at a conference today so it 's up to me to type up a report . |
| 26 | You see the St Giles taught me to type first of all |
| 27 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 28 | One afternoon the Governor summoned me to Government House and informed me that he had instructions to institute proceedings against Aung San for an alleged murder in the early days of the Japanese invasion of Burma , and instructed me to prepare the case to justify this to the country . |
| 29 | me to man , I 've been waiting about , nearly like three times |
| 30 | Malc was still struggling to revive our ailing business , leaving me to travel alone and , despite my well-earned local reputation for purity — ‘ The only place Marti Caine performs is on stage ’ — I was prey to the occasional foreign wolf . |