Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] go [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 After a fruitless hour I decided to go on the stick .
2 And of course I had to go on the carpet about that , for laughing .
3 So the two of us went off to Peel and er anyway they paid us , they paid for our lunch and er and so that was alright and of course I had to go in the witness box , you see and swear on the bible , you know , the whole truth , nothing but the truth , you see .
4 The clerk whose job I took went on the district as a relief clerk and later relief Stationmaster .
5 One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste .
6 Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ?
7 Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom .
8 ‘ I was n't part of the investigation but because I was on duty I had to go to the scene of the crime .
9 but when we got up to the top of the house I needed to go to the toilet .
10 By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ .
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