Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did , and I heard him say , ‘ Well , at least I lived long enough to meet you , love . ’ |
| 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 | ‘ And I got close enough to count them as they rode past . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I tried hard not to smile . |
| 7 | A pleasant change from the heat of Mespot , but with a deal of other diversions that I found easy enough to take . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I stopped there only to change trains . |
| 10 | I came here today to have a look but I did n't think it would affect me the way it has . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 12 | I disremember if it was October or November — it was October , 'cos it was before I came up here to join the matriculation class . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , would you believe I came up there to save you ? |
| 15 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 16 | I came down here to try and find him . |
| 17 | I came back here to learn music . |
| 18 | Then I came back here to change , before I joined my wife at a dinner party . |
| 19 | Much later , I came back in to help Wu clear up the debris and to take the puppies out for a walk . |
| 20 | I came out here to do a job , Signor de Sciorto … ’ |
| 21 | I came out here to look for her , but she seems to have disappeared . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I came out here to find Bernard and that 's what I intend to do . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ To come straight to the point , I drove down here to make a suggestion . |
| 25 | For your information , before that phone call was cut off , I heard quite enough to know it was n't you who made it . ’ |
| 26 | I 've I 've got a knitting machine and I worked out how to do it on my knitting machine and made a cot blanket for my newest grandchild and it does really look very effective . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I dashed back in to make Dad his sandwiches and pour his tea into his billy can . |
| 30 | I knew exactly where to stop it so that I could get off and go down the ladder , sneak a cup of tea or something . |