Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 2 | but did it look authentic with the thing , I mean not to the extent of |
| 3 | I shall expect you always to be dressed by dinner time and whomsoever I bring home to my table you 'll be in readiness to receive . |
| 4 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 5 | ‘ Once the truth becomes apparent , nephew , ’ explained Richard of Gloucester , and I judge there to be no further danger of a rising to place another on the throne or appoint another as Lord Protector , Vaughan and Rivers shall be released — and no harm done . ’ |
| 6 | I expect soon to be engaged , you see . ’ |
| 7 | I slip round to where my hand finds the iron handle . |
| 8 | I sleep close to the stove . ’ |
| 9 | However , I say again to the House — and especially to Government Members that they should ask questions relating to the Prime Minister 's responsibility — |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had to keep it quiet for good reasons , and if I say much to Marc he 'll really go up the wall . |
| 11 | I wish Kelvin was here ah ah ah Oh I hope the tape recorder can pick this up , because , erm The wind keeps coming at me I do n't even though why I 've come sho oh yeah , I wan na buy something , do n't I ? so what I say now to people , when they say something to me , I go I go and I say no actually I 'm not but never mind . |
| 12 | Anyway Mr Kobold suggested that I press on to Manchester tonight . ’ |
| 13 | That makes it strategically important that I report back to Earth Central , Defries thought , and of course it also makes it highly unlikely that I 'll survive to do so . |
| 14 | I report back to the hotel room , defeated . |
| 15 | So I head downstairs to the Pleasure Dome , a wood-panelled room that shows Dutch movies with spurious plots . |
| 16 | I stand up with a sigh , like any husband coming home from the boozer , and I head back to Rachel with whisky on my breath . |
| 17 | No I nip over to the shop and get it from near . |
| 18 | And turning to his colleague he said , ‘ Charley , keep an eye on these buggers while I nip round to the station . ’ |
| 19 | I nip down to Engineering and borrow a remote ( must keep tabs on things in London ) , then set off for the circus . |
| 20 | If I hold on to these things they go , and if I let go of them they go , and so my life goes . |
| 21 | Not while I hold on to my cottage , there is n't . |
| 22 | I bend down to the coke . |
| 23 | I squelch upstairs to the flat after my half-hour walk , and Kenneth answers the door with his specs on the end of his nose and the now permanent book in his hand . |
| 24 | I pointed Armstrong towards Regent 's Park but after Chalk Farm I cut through to Islington and down York Way to the Waterside Inn . |
| 25 | ‘ Hang on here , Jackie , while I cut up to the farm and ‘ phone . ’ |
| 26 | The lads I put on to it had to look behind every one of those bloody paintings for a wall safe . |
| 27 | I would remind Ben that I put up To Bolt or Not To Be , a widely recognised 8b/c , in November 1986 ; that I have since climbed more than 20 routes of this level or more ; that I repeated the roof at Volx fairly easily in 1990 ; and that I have since put up two more 8cs — Huevos in 1991 and Macoumba Club recently at Orgon — in addition to Just Do It . |
| 28 | At this stage the fish were all a dull brown which I put down to the new environment — the photograph I has seen showed a tan coloured upper body smothered with black patches . |
| 29 | No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself |
| 30 | I leave Darius shuffling in the litter while I ease up to the bedroom and try on a smile like when the pink Panther gets caught in a scrape . |