Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I goes upstairs to go to the toilet , and I 've got no carpet anywhere . |
| 2 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 3 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 4 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 5 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 6 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 7 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 8 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 9 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 10 | I want now to turn to the reforming efforts made by feminists , first in the domain of the lexicon ( and the dictionary , which is the ‘ official record ’ of the lexicon ) and then in the domain of grammar . |
| 11 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to do what I came here to do in the first place . |
| 13 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 14 | I came here to learn about the Antarctic — I 'm not interested in Amundsen , or in races ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ That evening my older brother and I set off to go to the pictures only to find they were closed , we did not have a television and the wireless was only playing sombre music , ’ says Mrs Smith , who now lives at Campsie Close , Lambton Village , Washington . |
| 16 | Why , I 'm going to do what I set out to do at the start — I 'm going to make sure that bastard marries you ! ’ |
| 17 | I set out to get inside the heads of gynaecologists , but what remains in my head is the freeze-frame of that young women with her legs held apart , unconscious , still unaware of a verdict which is likely to affect her whole life . |
| 18 | ‘ Now I know how to get into the locked room , ’ I thought . |
| 19 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 20 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 21 | ‘ I decided not to go with the Parslows , ’ she announced , as though she were saying the most reasonable thing in the world , but her lips were numb with fright , Papa was such a hard man to defy . |
| 22 | I decided not to go until the following morning . ’ |
| 23 | I decided not to rise to the bait . |
| 24 | I settled down to wait in the passageway between the garage and the house where I was a little protected from the inclemency of the weather and whence I was eventually plucked by the constabulary . |
| 25 | I knew how to drop into the stereotypes we learn as female sexuality … . |
| 26 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 27 | Before I go on to talk about the diet and overweight issue let us first consider the other factors that can cause heart disease . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I try not to stay with the same methods . |
| 29 | ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee . |
| 30 | So I went over to knock on the door . |