Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , as you know , we were almost brought up in the same bassinet , and , as I made out to Mama just a short while ago , if Isobel had to choose between the horse and me , the horse would come out best . ’ |
| 2 | By the riverbank in the warm afternoon sunlight I meandered back to Church Bridge and Dent . |
| 3 | And er this erm tt As I say this old man , he he he 'd did n't like coming in too soon in the morning , and er a I could see he was finding it a bit difficult to find both our wages out of his money , although I got there to time and worked . |
| 4 | When I got back to base , instead of being welcomed as the returning hero I thought myself to be , I was asked what had taken me so long . |
| 5 | As soon as I got back to Fontanellato I went to see the doctor , who decided to take Eric to the Apennines the following day . |
| 6 | By this time it was approaching midnight and when I got back to camp and rang Bomber Command the duty officer was most reluctant to put me through to " Bomber " Harris . |
| 7 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 8 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 9 | I was gon na , went down and completely forgot about it till I got back to work . |
| 10 | ‘ I moved over to auditing and I think I was very lucky because I was promoted quite quickly . |
| 11 | Stayed there er until the education people obviously decided that the junior schools erm infants schools , sorry , er were going to move in into another area and so I moved up to Lane School , which was possibly half a mile from my home . |
| 12 | I phoned in to work and asked ? |
| 13 | I referred earlier to coalescence as being as an extremely important factor . |
| 14 | I referred earlier to article 104B , and I have nothing further to add . |
| 15 | The last time I came up to town for the LIBF , the colleague who came with me showed a great talent for tracking down free wine . |
| 16 | Back at home again I came down to breakfast one morning scratching my head and my hair started to fall out . |
| 17 | Of course I came down to earth on my next round . |
| 18 | I came down to earth again . |
| 19 | I came down to earth a bit when Harry Enfield came on to thunderous applause . |
| 20 | I did n't know what to expect when I came back to school . |
| 21 | It was then , as if something had gone click in my head , that I came back to reality . |
| 22 | ‘ The only time I came close to lobbying was when I asked Dave Mannion , a friend for a long time , to tell me if he thought I 'd outlived my usefulness here , then I would slip quietly away . |
| 23 | The next morning , I came home to defiance in the face of defeat and 50 Scots Labour MPs , the Fighting Fifty . |
| 24 | Leaving a continuous , scalding double-tyretrack in my wake , I rocketed on to Sunset Boulevard , jumped three lights and made a spectacular crash-landing in the lot beneath the Vraimont . |
| 25 | I turned straightaway to No. 13 of Kinderszenen ( ‘ The poet speaks ’ ) to see if perhaps I missed the point . |
| 26 | I turned back to Sorrel and leaned forward so we eyeballed each other . |
| 27 | On my twenty-first birthday I walked out to Battle , to the grounds of the Abbey and thought very deeply . |
| 28 | I walked back to SIS . |
| 29 | I pulled out to starboard and went through the gate ( boosted the engine to the maximum ) . |
| 30 | I 've been up here tw twenty-three years and I did n't go out till I came here so I should say I was about twenty-two years ago I started back to work . |