Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is presumably that time which is relevant to the comment which I have n't the heart to repeat here where I refers to the current narrator . |
| 2 | I had to go below ground to an office where I spoke to a policeman . |
| 3 | My next call was to a local Somerset newspaper , where I spoke to a gentleman about the subject of the Chalice Well cover . |
| 4 | Although I wrote to the Corporation drawing attention to Captain Roskill 's account of the incident , the letter was neither published nor acknowledged — presumably on the basis that the BBC saw no reason why facts should spoil a good story about a ‘ cover-up ’ . |
| 5 | Although I insisted to the referee that the goal should stand because I had sent Pahdra on as substitute , the ref was not fooled , especially as Mr Singh was still wearing his dufflecoat and brogues . |
| 6 | it 's that kind of thing , rather than I suppose to the theatre way , you know , you , you react much more spontaneously , so I thought that was an interesting thing that thing |
| 7 | Joseph told me to fetch the doctor , so I ran to the village , although I knew it was too late . |
| 8 | I could not see my mother sine she had got herself well hidden behind my father so I rushed to the house , through the open french windows , saw my wife sideways on to me gazing at a blank wall and screamed , " See what 's happening — our baby to be plastered over half of some alien landscape ! |
| 9 | I want to go through in chronological order , so I turn to the back of the stack and find the lowest deposit , the first record of the new Unit . |
| 10 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 11 | It got more painful — so I went to a different doctor , who said it was an infected sebaceous cyst and gave me stronger antibiotics . |
| 12 | I felt really faint so I went to the pub at the end of the road where your office is — ca n't remember its name . |
| 13 | Poppy had managed to gather quite a collection of workmen 's boots , so I went to the pet shop and bought her some toys , which she loved playing with . |
| 14 | I did n't have any others so I went to the police station in stocking feet . |
| 15 | ‘ I could n't go , so I went to the second night . |
| 16 | I did n't find you at first , so I went to the bathroom . |
| 17 | Taff decided to do the first two and a half hours on the gun so I crawled to the back of the trench , curled up and immediately dropped off to sleep . |
| 18 | Then I noticed that Helen had n't much room by my side , so I stepped to the left to where the grating should have been and slid gracefully down into the cellar . |
| 19 | That made me feel a bit better , so I tottered to the top of the hill and stared bleakly around , in the equally bleak daylight . |
| 20 | I am uncomfortably bemused , so I come to the point of my visit . |
| 21 | Everything then was twice as frightening , so I returned to the gentle patting and quiet treatment with which I had tried to persevere before , and slowly Jester forgot his ‘ fear ’ and got on with his work . |
| 22 | Father 's study was locked , so I dashed to the kitchen . |
| 23 | I went right down to the sea 's edge , but the water was too cold for pleasure , so I retreated to the dry level and sat down to brush the sand off my feet and put on my shoes again . |
| 24 | If I disappear to the Bahamas for a holiday . |
| 25 | well that maybe true , but I think it 's working off an analogy on that , turning it the other way round and saying well erm if , if I got to the stage of erm , well possibly even seeking some information from the commission , well certainly if I gave you a conclusion for example , that it should be referred , erm and I think again even if I came to the conclusion that I should neither want , er there 's no point in seeking information from the Commission , nor should I refer it , or at least refer to the stage erm what his clients would be saying should be done in the interim and what he says in effect , for the reason he 's outlined is , er that we should proceed on the basis of erm the validity of the act erm and of the byelaws |
| 26 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
| 27 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
| 28 | I like it brown you know , if I go to a party . |
| 29 | Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that |
| 30 | They have threatened to beat me up , if I go to the police . |