Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 2 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 3 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 4 | For my work experience I went to the local primary school where I was a classroom helper with the reception class . |
| 5 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
| 6 | At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me . |
| 7 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 8 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 9 | The next day I took to the drizzling streets of Cuzco with a hangover of Sacsayhuaman proportions . ) |
| 10 | Each day I walked to the new village where the old village |
| 11 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
| 12 | I went to my room as often as I could , and then after a week I went to the local Employment Exchange . |
| 13 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 14 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 15 | Moderator I reported to the general assembly last year that the Board of Social Responsibility had planned a deficit on its operation of thirty eight eventide homes amounting to a little over two million pounds . |
| 16 | On the Sunday morning I went to the last service to be held at the City Temple . |
| 17 | But the following morning I awoke to the familiar sound of Chola shouting at the dogs and the dogs ' yelping response . |
| 18 | Sure enough there was the Marina but this was not pegged and after walking under a railway bridge I came to the first peg , number 65 . |
| 19 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 20 | In the opening pages of the book I referred to the pragmademic gap that seems to exist between pragmatists who have not had the benefit of a formal systems education , but might wish to make use of soft systems ideas , and those who have developed and applied these ideas at a more academic level . |
| 21 | In the end I came to a good old British compromise . |
| 22 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 23 | When I had depression I went to a self-help group . |
| 24 | any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule |
| 25 | My teaching finished just before Easter , and on my way north I went to the national cycle rally , which was held in a motor camp near Blenheim over the long weekend . |
| 26 | Like you , it 's high time I returned to the real world . ’ |
| 27 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |