Example sentences of "[conj] i go [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't remember the last time I had a holiday although I go abroad to work . |
| 2 | ‘ They benefit from me being here , but they appreciate that I go out to work occasionally , so it wo n't come as such a shock to them when I start to build up to going back to work properly ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ If I go to church I feel that I go more to escape the chores than for any other reason ! ’ she said aloud . |
| 4 | It was by accident that I went there to study English . |
| 5 | I left it a while but they did n't break up , so I went over to see what was going on . |
| 6 | ‘ I was asked to supervise canoeing when a scout leader , so I went off to master the sport and was a senior instructor after a couple of years . |
| 7 | ‘ They sent them in , ’ says Wright , ‘ so I went along to check out the Roedean girls ’ cricket last summer . |
| 8 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 9 | Erm I come in , and I went upstairs to see if he were in bed or not ? |
| 10 | We went in the Gra Grand just done the lounge at the Grand and when we had our first car and I went round to see mother and I said come on , we 'll go up to the , take you up to the Grand and have a drink . |
| 11 | that 's not bad and I went round to see Helen to see if she wanted this one for baby Anna but she said this one there is another one in there , erm |
| 12 | ‘ When Terry was coaching Barcelona and I went over to visit him , he asked me to bring a few pounds of good old English pork sausages because he was missing his bangers and mash for tea , ’ he explained . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | So I went back , dressed , and off I went , called the and I went up to try and beat it off . |
| 15 | When you and I went up to look after them ? |
| 16 | and I went across to see how she was and he says I 'm expecting her home today , that were Thursday , so that was |
| 17 | Long before the prayer was answered , Malc fell in love with a bus conductress and they set up home together , while the kids and I went back to live with my Pop . |
| 18 | It was early morning and I went down to answer a bang on the front door of Dad 's house . |
| 19 | Then my mother and I went out to make ourselves feel better and spent lots of money . |
| 20 | ‘ My husband was made redundant and I went out to work while he stayed at home to do the chores . |
| 21 | He dumped his overnight bag with mine and I went out to tell the driver we were just coming . |
| 22 | They asked me if it was my son , I said yes and I went out to tell Elizabeth . |
| 23 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 24 | Tony Visconti : ‘ When David and Angela found the enormous Victorian house , Haddon Hall , in Beckenham , my girlfriend and I went along to see it and we loved it . |
| 25 | There was , I was gon na say there was a hell of a fight going on here the morning we come over yours between Christopher and Andrew , and I went in to sort out just in time to hear Christopher say well I 'm having all GrandPat 's money when he 's dead not you . |
| 26 | Hirst said last night : ‘ The ball was running away and I went in to win it . |
| 27 | He was working in his room and I went in to tell him that I was going to spend the night with Miss Bond — I was upset , you understand . |
| 28 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 29 | Occasionally , she 's given me £5 or £10 if I go down to see her and says ‘ Treat yourself and do n't tell Paul . |
| 30 | Well when I go , I went u I just wo n't have washed my hair on Sundays cos if I go there to get mum , I know damn well my hair 's gon na stink , so I might as well not bother . |