Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
2 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
3 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
4 | So I came to the dinner for 20 minutes and sat with the sponsors . |
5 | So I went to the council and they offered me h re or a boarding house . |
6 | So I went to the council , I did n't know anything about social security , even that there was such a thing , so I was given benefit and a hostel to stay in at Elephant and Castle . |
7 | erm she said send her send her a mail something like that yeah so I went to the ticket desk , it was locked up and they 'd just come walking back and I thought ah I hope she 's not been waiting around . |
8 | So I went to the birth control clinic on , either Street or Street it was , I ca n't remember which . |
9 | So I went to the mainland to report it , and we have been in touch with the lawyers , the gunsmiths , and the salerooms . |
10 | So I went to the ravey last night , right , I went down there with Bedlam yeah and I was doing a rave with Bedlam right and he came up to me and he goes so what are your musical tastes then ? |
11 | I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to . |
12 | So I said to the bloke in the shop have you got some shoes he can put , so they had to do it with his trainers on , but he 's made them extra long cos he 's trainer 's is that much bulkier , so er , I said to , he ca n't do it . |
13 | So I said to the organist , whose name was Bobby Page , ‘ I 'll come up on the organ . ’ |
14 | Oh I know , he said erm , let me see , oh he says , er like that , if it was a narrow road er you er pretty well covered the road and I looked , I said , covered the road , I said I know I 'm big , but not that big a and of course everybody , the magistrates on the bench and everybody laughed , you see and there were newspaper reporters sitting down there writing all this down , you see and so I said to the sergeant , I said , would you be kind enough to send me a newspaper to er tonight and he to I am not sure if I can oh yes I think I did . |
15 | So I clung to the concept of ideal love for you , at the same time hoping for the even more impossibly ideal physical fulfilment and completion that would seal our closeness for ever . |
16 | And so I ran to the forge to fetch him . |
17 | So I goes to the cab rank , and gets up on the box . |
18 | So I returned to the laboratory , where the pieces of the woman monster 's body still lay on the floor . |
19 | So I go to the table and pot yellow one-handed , green , brown , blue , pink and black — all one-handed . |
20 | So I wrote to the Warden of Spurn Bird Observatory and booked myself in for a night . |
21 | So I listened to the talk of the travellers about me , hoping for a bit of instant history . |
22 | So I pulled to the side and I had n't changed a tyre for a long time , but I got the jack out of the back and started to jack the car up , and while I was doing it , these two ladies went , ‘ Ah , it 's Sting ’ . |
23 | So I reverted to the role of crazy horse , raging bull : wheeling , rearing , plunging , now attacking , now drawing back . |
24 | At six o'clock I went to the room with my name on the desk , donned a white coat , and started work . |
25 | I did not notice where I was walking , but soon I came to the station . |
26 | Well November , I meant the fourth of November it seems to be for ever anyway I spoke to the Head of the Department when they came back and he said I must admit we 've done nothing from the point of view of putting things on paper but a lot of thinking has gone into it I must really sit down now and commit things to paper . |
27 | Finally I went to the Principal of the college , a sympathetic dame whose ear I have for any amount of services rendered , and told her I had decided that term must end slightly earlier for me than the others . |
28 | The more I think about it , the more I veer to the conclusion that it was all a fantasy . |
29 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
30 | When I loaded in the game I hit fire , and once I got to the end of the screen I went to enter a hole that is there but I could n't . |