Example sentences of "[to-vb] i [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up my briefcase , started out the door and asked the FBI agent on the case to see me downstairs to a cab because I did n't feel very safe in Chicago . |
| 2 | I have the memories of the last time we loved to carry me through to my grave . |
| 3 | ‘ Knocked on the door , said she 'd come to drive me up to the county ground , had a picnic in the car and she hoped I was ready . ’ |
| 4 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 5 | I want you to drive me down to the railway station in about half an hour . ’ |
| 6 | When we got to the airport at Stansted , she 'd even arranged for the Captain to escort me on to the plane . |
| 7 | My wife 's friends in the KGB would be happy to escort me home to Russia . ’ |
| 8 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 9 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 10 | Mrs Rumney was shout to lead me through to the kitchen when the door burst open and Cedric bounded delightedly into the midst of the company . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone who may be able to lead me right to the heart of the operation , ’ he said softly . |
| 12 | ‘ This means I miss my connection and then it creates a scatter at Middlesbrough as they try to fit me on to a train to get to Hartlepool in time . |
| 13 | So in my new bedroom ( which used to be Pa 's office until he gave it up , just for me , and moved into the caravan ) , we work out a prayer together , to help me not to be led into temptation again . |
| 14 | On the third evening , I was sitting drinking alone and started talking to a man who offered to walk me back to the hotel . |
| 15 | You wo n't try to persuade me not to ? , |
| 16 | Each time a guard arrived , either with food or to let me out to the lavatory , I asked for a book , and each time he said ‘ Yes ’ and did n't bring one . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps you could lend me a servant to guide me back to the Grange ? ’ |
| 18 | So I wake my feet up , stop fantasizing about the bomb , and invite the East London Line to ferry me up to Whitechapel . |
| 19 | By this time it was approaching midnight and when I got back to camp and rang Bomber Command the duty officer was most reluctant to put me through to " Bomber " Harris . |
| 20 | I want two things from an aeroplane : I want it to fly me up to the enemy , and then lie still while I shoot the enemy down . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Ken Harris has promised to keep me up to date with the press briefings … ’ she began . |
| 22 | So when my father had to leave in the summer he thought fit to send me here to my lord Isambard , to keep me from under my brother 's feet until Isabel 's safely wed . |
| 23 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 24 | In spite of my difficulties , all the officers and men showed great kindness and patience ; except for one Australian officer who did not disguise the fact that he would have been only too happy to send me back to where I had come from . |
| 25 | " Mum used to send me down to the job centre for jobs . |
| 26 | Peace Corps was willing to send me off to Honduras , but I did n't feel right about it . |
| 27 | BELVILLE : Do you think it is possible for you to love me preferably to any other of my sex ? |
| 28 | Each evening when we tidied away our papers I expected Edward to invite me over to the Lodge for a drink or a meal , and the invitation was not extended . |
| 29 | Hellen was good enough to invite me along to some of them . |
| 30 | He shouted to the two cops to turn me over to Harvey . |