Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm usually if there 's space you ask them to sit just to listen to the introduction and then move on . |
| 2 | When I reached home , my wife made me promise never to go to sea again , and I thought my adventures had come to an end . |
| 3 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 4 | Yeah , but thing is I mean , you know , there 's a lot of kids out there , I mean I 've know with , sort of , Lee 's friend you know , okay , with us I mean with Lee o okay we do n't I 've often said to him , why do n't you get a Saturday job ? |
| 5 | I mean now talking to some of the girls a lot of their parents are very strict on them . |
| 6 | No , I mean actually come to one of the officers and sit there and they do the work , so it does n't bother us at all . |
| 7 | On performance though , good as the new one is , I remain firmly attached to the TER , which is more romantically conceived , and captures much better the work 's operetta style . |
| 8 | Although I remain strongly opposed to any closer political or economic union with Europe , will my right hon. Friend accept that the leadership that he has shown at the Maastricht conference and his toughness in the negotiations clearly display that he is the only party leader competent to govern this country during the next few years ? |
| 9 | I goes upstairs to go to the toilet , and I 've got no carpet anywhere . |
| 10 | Though I still argued at parties , defending Sir Stafford Cripps and the Labour Government , no one I met now seemed to be interested : they listened to my opinions because I was pretty , their eyes on the cleavage of my dress . |
| 11 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 12 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 17 | I got so committed to the story down there , and I 've got so many friends among the Muslims , Serbs , Croats , peacekeepers and peacemakers that it would be very hard to let it go . |
| 18 | ‘ I tried not to listen to all that dirty talk , but the truth is a couple of suggestions left me wondering … ’ |
| 19 | I want now to turn to a less philosophical question about my passage from my armchair to the kitchen . |
| 20 | I want now to turn to some questions of form and genre , trying to identify a particular set of formal and institutional parameters for television , and returning at the end of the essay to questions of value . |
| 21 | I want now to turn to the reforming efforts made by feminists , first in the domain of the lexicon ( and the dictionary , which is the ‘ official record ’ of the lexicon ) and then in the domain of grammar . |
| 22 | I WANT now to move to a more detailed consideration of Flame in the Streets as it contains many of the features with which I am concerned . |
| 23 | I learnt this lesson some years ago when the soldier to whom I referred earlier came to Christ . |
| 24 | It was wet on the ground , + I slipped , but unfortunately the same bench that I mentioned previously happened to be in my way again . |
| 25 | I learnt not to talk to strangers and I thought it was funny . |
| 26 | I 'd just wanted to be somewhere where people knew what they were doing . |
| 27 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 28 | And er very straight-faced in fact , and she was sitting at the back of the room , and I , I 'd just said to everybody , I said nobody here 's got a life purchased annuity , have they ? |
| 29 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |