Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm usually if there 's space you ask them to sit just to listen to the introduction and then move on . |
| 2 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 3 | He says that if they fail to get jobs he wants them to know how to live off the land and be able to feed their families . |
| 4 | I goes upstairs to go to the toilet , and I 've got no carpet anywhere . |
| 5 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 6 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 7 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 8 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 9 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 10 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 11 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 12 | ‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way . |
| 13 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 14 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 15 | I want now to turn to a less philosophical question about my passage from my armchair to the kitchen . |
| 16 | I want now to turn to the reforming efforts made by feminists , first in the domain of the lexicon ( and the dictionary , which is the ‘ official record ’ of the lexicon ) and then in the domain of grammar . |
| 17 | I WANT now to move to a more detailed consideration of Flame in the Streets as it contains many of the features with which I am concerned . |
| 18 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going to do what I came here to do in the first place . |
| 20 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 21 | I came here to learn about the Antarctic — I 'm not interested in Amundsen , or in races ! ’ |
| 22 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 23 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |
| 24 | ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington . |
| 25 | Why , I 'm going to do what I set out to do at the start — I 'm going to make sure that bastard marries you ! ’ |
| 26 | I set out to get inside the heads of gynaecologists , but what remains in my head is the freeze-frame of that young women with her legs held apart , unconscious , still unaware of a verdict which is likely to affect her whole life . |
| 27 | ‘ Now I know how to get into the locked room , ’ I thought . |
| 28 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 29 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 30 | ‘ I decided not to go with the Parslows , ’ she announced , as though she were saying the most reasonable thing in the world , but her lips were numb with fright , Papa was such a hard man to defy . |