Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [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 He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’
3 I got up early to say goodbye to him . ’
4 Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was .
5 ‘ And I got close enough to count them as they rode past .
6 A pleasant change from the heat of Mespot , but with a deal of other diversions that I found easy enough to take .
7 I stopped long enough to recharge , then pedalled up the Arrow Valley , crossed a ridge of hills and then freewheeled all the way down to the largest second hand bookshop in the world at Hay-on-Wye .
8 I stopped there only to change trains .
9 I came here today to have a look but I did n't think it would affect me the way it has .
10 ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed , though while she felt it would not be right for her to question him about his employer , she could see no reason — since he must be aware of the contents of Ven Gajdusek 's desk diary — for not mentioning , ‘ I came here specifically to interview Mr Gajdusek last Friday , but — ’
11 I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’
12 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 .
13 ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ?
14 ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’
15 I came down here to try and find him .
16 I came back here to learn music .
17 Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party .
18 I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’
19 I came out here to look for her , but she seems to have disappeared . ’
20 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 .
21 I came out here to find Bernard and that 's what I intend to do . ’
22 ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion .
23 For your information , before that phone call was cut off , I heard quite enough to know it was n't you who made it . ’
24 And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water .
25 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 .
26 I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said .
27 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 .
28 So I strode up there to have this man-to-man chat with Nick .
29 I sang quite loudly to rise above the noise of the cars , and fixed my eyes on Anna , walking among the tables with her straw hat ready for coins .
30 The proof of the pudding as we all know is in the eating , and I thought where better to sample the pudding than at RAF Uxbridge .
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