Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time . |
| 2 | I got up early to say goodbye to him . ’ |
| 3 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 4 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 5 | erm when I first started working in Harlow eighteen years ago one evening I came up just to see what the playhouse was all about . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 7 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 8 | I came down here to try and find him . |
| 9 | I came back here to learn music . |
| 10 | Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party . |
| 11 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 12 | I came out here to look for her , but she seems to have disappeared . ’ |
| 13 | I came out here to have a little fun skiing quietly round , and here you are , attempting to barge your way into my life all over again . |
| 14 | I came out here to find Bernard and that 's what I intend to do . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion . |
| 16 | Five or ten minutes by there , and getting introduced to all the old colliers that were in the same manhole , that we called it : I started down then to follow my father ; and I had to follow him like a little dog , all the way . |
| 17 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 18 | So I strode up there to have this man-to-man chat with Nick . |
| 19 | That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his . |
| 20 | I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it . |
| 21 | When I went round there to take the saw back she was er you know her little tail |
| 22 | I just caught a glimpse of you both through one of the windows , but Lewis had already started to come back inside when I went out there to fetch you back . ’ |
| 23 | A competent woman officer told me first , then I went down alone to see Barbara . |
| 24 | Yes , she said but er when I went down there to check after you 'd gone , she said erm yours was erm the driest of them sort of thing . |
| 25 | When I 'd had a bite and patrolled the area , I went back home to sit on the garage roof and have a leisurely wash . |
| 26 | After a while I calmed down enough to rest myself . |
| 27 | ‘ I waited up just to make sure you got back to the hotel safely . |
| 28 | But on my way through the old garden I had a strange feeling that something was wrong , and I ran back upstairs to check that Miss Havisham was all right . |
| 29 | When I was nine and they were out for the evening I stayed up late to watch a horror movie and had nightmares . |
| 30 | I stayed up late to clear things up , and got up early to do the same thing . |