Example sentences of "i [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 A habitual collocation of two or more words whose combined meaning is not deducible from a knowledge of its component parts and of their grammatical relations to each other : He 's a real pain in the neck , and I 'm fed up to the teeth with the mess he 's landed us in . |
| 2 | Through the communicating voice tube I was invited up to the bridge . |
| 3 | She was hard at work in her jealously private workshop , though she called in briefly at the library from time to time , and I was invited back to the Lodge for meals some evenings . |
| 4 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 5 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 6 | The importance of this discovery can not be over-estimated , for through it I was led on to the further discovery of the Primary Control of the workings of all the mechanisms of the human organisms , and this marked the first important stage of my investigation . |
| 7 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I was wrapped up to the eyes when I went u down to put my walking boots on as well because they 're comfortable and there were people going going round in their shellsuits and you know I must be feeling the cold more now . |
| 9 | I was bellied up to the bar with the crowd of bobby-soxers and crewcuts . |
| 10 | Eventually I was driven back to the Noones ’ house by a blue-clad security man . |
| 11 | After thanks and apologies all round I was driven back to the Lion to find that my borrowed sheep had been sold and had disappeared . |
| 12 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 13 | I was taken back to the cell , where I started throwing the furniture about . |
| 14 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 15 | I was brought back to the mundane present by the shiver of chill that ran over me . |
| 16 | Adds Murray : ‘ I was hauled off to the station but allowed to go after agreeing to pay for the damage . ’ |
| 17 | They formed their line again and started searching for Esmerelda while I was carried back to the house . |
| 18 | I was carried down to the ambulance and taken to a Kendal hospital . |