Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only went upstairs to get sort of washed and dressed , after the weekend , you have nobody around and er , oh eh , it started bleeding . |
| 2 | I only went once to visit the Greens and then I was collecting money for the Missionary Fund to which most people contributed a copper or two , with young Mrs Thwaites from the neighbouring farm to us , High Birk Hatt . |
| 3 | ‘ No , look , I just came here to find my friends . |
| 4 | I just wish now to say I declare the Exhibition open and to say how pleased I am to see so many old friends here today . |
| 5 | ‘ I — I did n't feel very well — the heat I suppose — and I just wanted somewhere to sit down , ’ she explained hurriedly , trying to smooth over her faux pas . |
| 6 | I just wanted somewhere to live , have the baby , then the two of us to be on our own somewhere . |
| 7 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 8 | ‘ One thing I still find hard to take in is how hard my mother worked for all of us . |
| 9 | I also learned too to put thumb over the top , not underneath , because they can , they do |
| 10 | I now wanted desperately to belong to the Christian church in general ( which to me , from my Free Church background , was what baptism implied ) while not able to belong specifically to the Anglican Church ( which was what confirmation implied ) so long as that church discriminated against women . |
| 11 | It was the biggest mistake of my life and one that I really try hard to forget . |
| 12 | And I I really want officially to thank Celia for what she 's done . |
| 13 | I simply wanted just to intervene at this point Moderator er there , before we get into a debate on section four , just to remind the assembly that we have a heavy volume of business still ahead of us this afternoon . |
| 14 | I practiced my trade , I simplified my life , I was on my way to becoming the " Compleat Airman " , I also felt that I should get an overseas tour out of the way , and was quite pleased when I found my name on the PWR+ ; I then awaited eagerly to learn where . |
| 15 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 16 | I never went there to stay , but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills . |
| 17 | And I never want really to go beyond looking at them … . |
| 18 | Not I went to bed last night at twelve o'clock John and Ryan was in bed about twelve I think , the two of them just fell straight to sleep . |
| 19 | ‘ You only come here to crash out . ’ |
| 20 | In a further six cases ( one in Newham , five in Ipswich ) the development officer said she would have liked to provide a little extra help but a support worker was rejected by the client or his informal carer ; and since they did not require the kind of direct help which the development officer could provide , she merely visited occasionally to check whether or not the situation was breaking down . |
| 21 | You already know enough to work out the answer for yourself . |
| 22 | You could n't care less , one way or the other — you just came here to have a little fun at my expense . |
| 23 | You think you 've been hurt , and yes , you have , but you 're still better off than the ones who had to spend their time in institutions , you still had somewhere to go , did n't you . |
| 24 | As for Lucinda 's birth — she still shuddered just to think of it , and she had prayed that the next one would produce the son she so desperately needed to enable her to call a halt to the whole disagreeable business . |
| 25 | It stood on a little round table in front of the muslin-curtained window , and the long green plush sofa against the opposite wall bore the imprint of the length of the girl 's body as though she habitually lay there to watch it . |
| 26 | She also tried hard to revive interest in Idomeneo , thus proving that she was no musical ignoramus . |
| 27 | ‘ Did you really come just to see me ? ’ |
| 28 | Flying forwards is exactly the same as hovering in a wind except that you now have consciously to do things which you probably did automatically in the hover . |
| 29 | ‘ Or have you simply come here to annoy me ? ’ |
| 30 | She consistently refused even to acknowledge his right to protest , let alone answer his questions . |