Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I cared only to escape from a life that was irksome and narrow , ’ said Taliesin , drinking his wine and reclining in the chair rather negligently . |
| 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 | ‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way . |
| 9 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 10 | And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover . |
| 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 | I mean yesterday after I had me dinner I dropped off to sleep for a couple of hours cos |
| 16 | And on one occasion in the gymnasium , I turned round to look at a boy behind me and the master was there and he smacked me with the flat of his hand as hard as he could . |
| 17 | I decided not to vote for the first time in 37 years because of the EC . |
| 18 | So I decided not to go to the Literary Club but to stay at home . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | I decided not to go until the following morning . ’ |
| 21 | I decided not to rise to the bait . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I knew how to drop into the stereotypes we learn as female sexuality … . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | So I went over to knock on the door . |
| 26 | Er , I went on to say throughout the ages the government has repealed legislation , there 's nothing new about repealing legislation it is repealed either because it is proved unworkable or because it 's simply outlived its shelf life . |
| 27 | I went on to say in the new world in which we live legislation has grown like topsy and thus requires more drastic pruning . |
| 28 | Still , Mr Dysart went to see what 'e could do , while I went back to phone for the police . |
| 29 | I went back to look through the view-panel , an felt my stomach go into zerograv . |
| 30 | I suddenly knew I had either to behave like a shocked girl who had still been at school that time the year before ; or like an adult . |