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 .
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