Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And , Father , he asked — the lord sheriff asked — that I should beg you to have Brother Cadfael informed also , and when the morning comes , if you permit , I am to lead him to the place , to meet the sheriff there . |
2 | ‘ I am to take you to the count . |
3 | I am taking you to the house of Robert Asshe , in Holborn . |
4 | ‘ I am taking you to the dressing-room where the ladies are gathered , they would be your best customers , I do n't doubt . ’ |
5 | However , at this moment I am addressing myself to the question of motive . |
6 | It would be nice to imagine the reader , having ingested the reader , having ingested the above , musing , ‘ Oh , I never thought of that ’ — which is , after all , the response elicited by all cultural commentators — but I have no illusions that I 'm teaching anything to the individual or individuals responsible for the original design . |
7 | ‘ No , I 'm taking her to the doctor 's . ’ |
8 | So today I 'm taking them to a matinée . ’ |
9 | ‘ Do n't forget , I 'm taking you to the Stadt Berlin . |
10 | I 'm taking you to the bank , ’ he muttered in her ear , his voice reverberating through her body . |
11 | I 'm taking you to the Jolly Farmers . |
12 | Having come this far , and having made the effort to come first , I reflected only briefly as the Commandant in front of me , with his four gold bars on his shoulders , signed a piece of paper and said , ‘ I 'm posting you to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . ’ |
13 | ‘ I ca n't stand it — I 'm taking them — I 'm giving them to the dogs … . ’ |
14 | But I was advised to imagine I was telling it to a good friend and not worry about what other people might think . |
15 | ‘ I did n't say I was taking you to a hotel , ’ he replied evenly . |
16 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
17 | I was committing myself to a policy . ’ |
18 | ‘ I suddenly felt that I was doing it to a bunch of people that actually understood what Lear 's pain was about , whereas I do n't standing on the stage at the National Theatre ’ : Brian Cox 's concerns about audience reactions and the nature of the dramatic experience are echoed by others . |