Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 2 | As I hold them I slowly sink to the deep dark bottom . |
| 3 | The European community on the other hand also saw a growth of output of over twenty percent , twenty three point seven percent but that gave rise not to eighteen million but to only six million additional jobs and I just say to the honourable gentleman the lesson for Europe is to go further down the route that I have suggested of further deregulation and less bureaucracy and a stable economic framework , than to go down the route that he is advocating in his short address and question to me . |
| 4 | I once went to the Ajami police station to ask for protection but the British constable would n't open the door to me . ’ |
| 5 | I once said to a small group of Reception children working in the play area : " I 've heard that this bracelet has some strange magic powers . |
| 6 | Will McLewin rolls into town 40 minutes late , parks his battered VW van on double yellow lines in Llanberis High Street and wanders into Pete 's Eats with a mirthful , wondering , combative expression on a face I once compared to a quick and breathing version of Norman Tebbit 's . |
| 7 | I ONCE mentioned to a local farmer that my grandfather had been born in the little fishing village of Staxigoe , to the north of Wick in Caithness , and he quickly warned me not to go about repeating the story , because of the supposedly dubious reputation the natives of Staxigoe have earned themselves down the ages . |
| 8 | I once talked to an old retainer of the Usurper who claimed Richard hid five hundred pounds in gold in the great bed there . |
| 9 | I once suggested to a French audience that a book on Les silences du Colonel Polybe would be instructive . |
| 10 | I wonder why you did n't phone your lawyer before I ever got to the front door . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Sullivan said : ‘ The gallery owner , Martin Ainscough , is a good friend of mine and I always go to the private viewings because I am a big modern art collector . |
| 12 | So , when I was at , I always go to the fucking front , I do n't care who it is . |
| 13 | As you know , comrade , I usually cater to a civilian clientele . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It sounds lovely , but somehow I never seem to have time to make things like that ant as you know I usually go to the Humming Bird for lunch . ’ |
| 15 | erm , but , erm it 's , it 's pretty straightforward , I , I usually refer to the previous month 's erm things anyway just to make sure I 'm doing everything right cos they use |
| 16 | I also spoke to the assistant editor , when he came in . |
| 17 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 18 | And in this respect , it should be recalled that the man I later compared to the mechanical rabbit who runs on.rails at a greyhound track was far from being the smooth , meticulous driver he later became . |
| 19 | I now return to the computational work in which I was engaged during these years . |
| 20 | I now turn to the other dimension of culture within higher education ; namely , higher education as a cultural experience for students . |
| 21 | I now turn to the professional encounters I had in the late 1970s and early 1980s with two senior but very different public figures , Lord Mountbatten and Harold Macmillan ( later Earl of Stockton ) . |
| 22 | I now turn to the second problem I posed earlier . |
| 23 | The foregoing discussion of investment planning represents an essay in definition of the first of these conditions within the context of British capitalism ; I now turn to the second condition , and the relationship between the two . |
| 24 | I now turn to the second problem : If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory , why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones ? |
| 25 | I now turn to the third of my questions : what controls the whole system ? |
| 26 | ‘ I now turn to the third element ‘ property belonging to another . ’ |
| 27 | I now turn to the third problem , the questions of free will and responsibility for our actions . |
| 28 | I now turn to the third and what I think is the most worrying issue , the position of teachers falsely accused of abusing children in their care . |
| 29 | I now apply to the present case the principles that I have spent overlong in trying to identify . |
| 30 | I now come to the two issues in the case . |