Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She phoned me earlier this week and invited me to come down here to see her land . |
| 2 | Margaret was nearly out of her mind when she asked me to come out here to look for you , but that 's all in the past now . |
| 3 | So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children . |
| 4 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 5 | I got up early to say goodbye to him . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 7 | ‘ And I got close enough to count them as they rode past . |
| 8 | There was a harshness to Inspector Drew 's questions , despite their quiet , almost conversational delivery , and I tried hard not to become uncomfortable under his eye . |
| 9 | I tried hard not to smile . |
| 10 | A pleasant change from the heat of Mespot , but with a deal of other diversions that I found easy enough to take . |
| 11 | When I was about 14 , I remember my sister and I pledging quite seriously to grow up and defy convention ; to be women who still wore jeans and long hair at 30 . |
| 12 | I want now just to summarise and er some of these the features I 'm going to point out I 've I 've already stated so you may may just want to sit back and just take this in . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I stopped there only to change trains . |
| 15 | I stop off twice to buy food . |
| 16 | I came here today to have a look but I did n't think it would affect me the way it has . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 18 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 21 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 22 | I came down here to try and find him . |
| 23 | I came back here to learn music . |
| 24 | Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party . |
| 25 | Much later , I came back in to help Wu clear up the debris and to take the puppies out for a walk . |
| 26 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 27 | I came out here to look for her , but she seems to have disappeared . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I came out here to find Bernard and that 's what I intend to do . ’ |
| 30 | It is without any pleasure that I seek once more to call the attention of the House to the problems faced by Derbyshire police force . |