Example sentences of "[to-vb] [subord] i [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Please do n't break your promise to Dana — I shall survive ; and now you must excuse me , I have a lot to do before I go to the NEC . ’ |
| 2 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 3 | I played outside , running around in a pair of shorts and — I imagine-quite happy to have the whole pregnancy thing going on because it gave me more freedom to do as I liked about the house and garden , free from my father 's supervision . |
| 4 | Perhaps the best way to write this kind of story ( or even the equivalent of the detective novel at short story length ) is to do as I did with the first crime short story I ever wrote . |
| 5 | Phil used to wait till I landed on the wedding |
| 6 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 7 | ‘ I tend to shower when I go to the gym , but often I have a bath in the evening with my son . |
| 8 | And therefore , in the County Council 's erm opinion , the test which I need to adopt when I go to the site again , is to look at it and er simply make a decision as to whether or not in my opinion the land is more properly a part of this built-up area which can not perform a greenbelt function , or is a part of the general extent of greenbelt around there , and therefore by definition performs a greenbelt function . |
| 9 | ‘ You 'll have to wait while I nip to the loo , ’ said the grinning Baker , trotting the other way . |
| 10 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 11 | he 's out , oh you ran up and I thought he was going to die when I got into the |
| 12 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's what I forgot to get when I went to the market ! |
| 14 | The soft , sweet sounds of the piano dropped round me , intoxicating me and compelling me to follow as I drifted towards the sound like a child of Hamelin . |