Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | What do I want to get out of a job ? |
| 3 | Mm well maybe , I mean to come up with a , a clear example . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've given up too many things in the past and I intend to hang on to every penny that the sale of this house fetches . |
| 5 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 6 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 7 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 8 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 10 | Sometimes I got to get up in the night and walk about and |
| 11 | What else do I need to consider along with the staff ? |
| 12 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 13 | And I tried to save up for a car cos my son was in the army . |
| 14 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 15 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 16 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 17 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 18 | I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt , but she called me back . |
| 19 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 20 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 21 | On my return to London I tried to find out about the Ober Gabelhorn but there was little information readily available , apart from a couple of references to it as one of the great alpine peaks . |
| 22 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 23 | Next year , I want to carry on with the course , and do my Highers as well . ’ |
| 24 | When I think of my past blunders here , I want to turn round at the airport and catch the next plane home . |
| 25 | now if I want to go down to the sea front well I 'll shall get a taxi and , and sha n't be worrying where me next meals coming from because I 've saved it , so , so that 's , that 's no worry , I was saying to Arthur if we went to Butlins well it would take all we had , because it , we could n't go to Butlins under three hundred pounds for two of us , we could n't go anywhere else , if we go to Blackpool , our , our said to , to , to dad , I , I would like to pop to , er I do n't think we will do because , er , the hassle for your dad , but er , I 'd like to go and see aunty Annie , but I do n't want to go to Nelson to do it |
| 26 | ‘ I want to go back to a size 12 again . |
| 27 | I want to go back to a comment made by the hon. Member for Truro ( Mr. Taylor ) , which led the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) to go into a spate of incontinent muttering . |
| 28 | After the elections I want to go back to the Institute of Forecasting . |
| 29 | And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one when it had a mere I hope everybody can see that , it 's not very large today and I do n't think I can any better than that In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded , it had a mere fifty seven members and it did n't grow very much for a number of years . |
| 30 | ‘ I think I want to go back to the house for a while , ’ she said at last in a careful tone . |