Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flung them on to the bed where she should have been , but was n't . |
| 2 | I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula . |
| 3 | I made it back to the car and drove very slowly back to my own apartment . |
| 4 | And when I started to write on the piano I found that when I translated it back to the guitar it was better . |
| 5 | I am sorry not to have replied to your fax sooner but I passed it on to the wrong person for answers to your questions on promo videos . |
| 6 | I quickly cast back out again to the same spot and to my total astonishment the rod was almost pulled out of my hands before I got it back to the rests . |
| 7 | Later , I drove her back to the flat she shared and stood leaning against some rusted railings while she looked for her keys . |
| 8 | I turned it over to the studio and went to work on The Roots of Heaven , and apparently John Wayne took over after I left . |
| 9 | When he was n't looking I poured mine on to the floor . |
| 10 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 11 | ‘ The bike skidded on past ahead of me and I followed it in to the side of the road . |
| 12 | Then , with the help of twenty of Blefuscu 's ships and three thousand sailors , I pulled it on to the beach . |
| 13 | I watched them down to the causeway . |
| 14 | I called him through to the kitchen to have his soup . |
| 15 | I brought him back to the matter in hand . |
| 16 | I says , they have a hotel there , so I brought them up to the hotel and took them , he went in and he made arrangements to stay there and then I took them over and let them see this lake dwell this crannagh as they call it . |
| 17 | I failed to get a single note out of it when I brought it back to the hotel . |
| 18 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
| 19 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 20 | X-rays were taken there and then and resisting the temptation to open the package , I took them back to the consulting room . |
| 21 | Well they did provide her with food , but also I took her up to the phone and showed her how to get in touch with D H S S and explain the situation . |
| 22 | Yet fear it I did , so greatly did the idea come to me that if I took her up to the cave to meet Elsbeth , she would somehow have trapped me instead of I her . |
| 23 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 24 | When I wrote it in 1971 there was a postal strike , so I took it up to the BBC personally . |
| 25 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 26 | I took it down to the Spar shop as well . |
| 27 | I gave it away to the wrong person . |
| 28 | I said it afterwards to the clergyman . |
| 29 | I had it down to the finest of details . |
| 30 | I motioned him over to the counter and he came , taking his time and stepping out his cigarette . |