Example sentences of "i [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 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 3 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 4 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd better go to bed , ’ said Leonora hastily , moving further away , but he held up his hand . |
| 6 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 7 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 8 | ‘ I grew up listening to jazz , ’ explains Meier , ‘ because the Swiss charts were always full of silly songs . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ A lesson , ’ I said ‘ But I do n't go to school on Sundays . ’ |
| 10 | I do n't go to school . |
| 11 | and I went erm at Christmas once and it was bollocks , I just went hey , I wish I , glad I do n't go to church |
| 12 | It 's pretty late , but I do n't go to bed . |
| 13 | I get people who I worked with ten years ago in the record business saying ‘ Been down to see City lately ? ’ — but ten years ago if you 'd have said to them ‘ How did City get on ? ’ they would have said ‘ I do n't go to soccer , I 'm into meditation ’ . |
| 14 | But , I do n't go to football now , I watch the television cos I 'm seventy three now , but it never any harm ! |
| 15 | ‘ Forgive me , Tilly , I do n't mean to dismay you , but you have no understanding of how urgently these matters press . |
| 16 | I do n't want to f— up my music by being too political . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't want to press-gang you into doing something you 're not happy with , so if you have any reservations just say so . |
| 18 | I do n't want to sort of wade in in response to that , I want other people to er |
| 19 | Right I mean I do n't want to sort of pry into how you do your business that the in the the getting of that information that 's that is relatively straightforward , is it ? |
| 20 | I do n't want to rock-climb . |
| 21 | I 'm not cared I 'm not a lass , I do n't have to make-up on them . |
| 22 | If anything , I just make sure I do n't starve to death . |
| 23 | He surmised that Socialism would remain unpopular as long as critics were able to say : ‘ I do n't object to Socialism , but I do object to Socialists . ’ |
| 24 | Because it 's a beta version , I do n't propose to harp on about any niggles , but will say this — if more DOS applications adopt its user interface and usability as well as its wealth of functions , the death of DOS may be further off than many of us have predicted . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , I do usually bow to tradition and give waiters and hairdressers a little extra . ’ |
| 27 | And my father I think just went to school in the Wintertime . |
| 28 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 29 | There were no European schools in Narayanganj so that I did not go to school until I was 12 ; Jon was 14 . |
| 30 | Well I was t taking piano lessons , studying for the exams I went over the top , I had to give it up and I did n't go to school then for another eighteen months . |