Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 2 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 3 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd better go to bed , ’ said Leonora hastily , moving further away , but he held up his hand . |
| 5 | Although in ’ Coarse Fisherman ’ I primarily write about coarse fish to be caught on lures — pike , zander , perch etc. — I do occasionally refer to game fish and in this feature I want to mention sea angling . |
| 6 | However , I do usually bow to tradition and give waiters and hairdressers a little extra . ’ |
| 7 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
| 8 | A nasty experience I had recently brought to mind an interesting phenomenon — how appropriate people 's names often are . |
| 9 | Mick had argued his case forcefully , and I had reluctantly agreed to camp next to them . |
| 10 | I 've just walked to school for fucking nuffink I have n't got a lesson |
| 11 | ( I have since called to mind G. K. Chesterton 's remark in Heretics that ideas are dangerous and most dangerous to the man of no ideas : ‘ the man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller . ’ ) |
| 12 | As a result I have now listened to shelley 's recording over half-adozen times with increasing pleasure , the complete reverse of so many of those versions listed above . |
| 13 | The Kensington Hilton was enormous , quite the biggest place I have ever encountered to date . |
| 14 | Since 1990 she has really began to surface with work which is not for the faint hearted . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd better go to bed , ’ she said . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd better go to bed , ’ he said curtly . |
| 17 | I think you 'd better go to bed . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd better go to supper , Nurse Avery , ’ said Wendy Target briskly . |
| 19 | Come on , you 'd better get to bed if you 're going to take us to England tomorrow . |
| 20 | She 'd never resorted to violence in her life , but suddenly the thought of landing a punch square on that granite jaw was enormously appealing . |
| 21 | She 'd hardly spoken to mother all day . |
| 22 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 23 | And she got herself ready for bed and you know just went to bed by herself . |
| 24 | And when you do finally get to bed , you ca n't lock yourself in and you may be woken up at any time of the night on any pretext . |
| 25 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 26 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 27 | You s you you 've indicat er you you 've sort of g given an impression that er this er this the centre h depends if you want to get a lot out of it , you 've really got to sort of work at it quite hard to er bring it up to anything together . |
| 28 | You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road . |
| 29 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 30 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |