Example sentences of "i to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
| 2 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 3 | She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door . |
| 4 | Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below . |
| 5 | The Australian representative of the Mission , who drove me to the Southern Cross Hotel in Sydney , explained that the Mantela , a Sanderstown boat of 5,000 tons which normally plied between the islands , had just finished a refit in Sydney and was about to sail two days after my arrival . |
| 6 | The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room . |
| 7 | To fly me to the small airport outside Freiburg near the Black Forest . ’ |
| 8 | And it was indescribably eerie — so that I almost began to wonder if Posi had brought me to the right planet . |
| 9 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 10 | That brings me to the real issue , namely the circumstances in which an order under section 6(2) can be made against third parties who were knowingly concerned in the contravention , that is the unauthorised carrying on of investment business . |
| 11 | ‘ Which brings me to the final thing we need to discuss . |
| 12 | This brings me to the final topic that I want to discuss in this rather philosophical chapter , the problem of what we mean by explanation . |
| 13 | Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet . |
| 14 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 15 | Films like dreams come and go and are soon forgotten , yet King Kong , which I must have seen in 1933 , or early 1934 , with its scenes of adventure in a fabled land , was the one to overwhelm my mind and stay with me to the present day . |
| 16 | She grabbed my arm and pulled me to the outer door . |
| 17 | ‘ Can you direct me to the private wing ? ’ |
| 18 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 19 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 20 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
| 21 | So it seemed to me , sir , that we need a very very special justification for this all embracing E two policy which brings me to the other thing to say about it as a general principle . |
| 22 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 23 | The primary entry was a compositional definition , but two of seven further entries did take me to the deep mantle . |
| 24 | I felt strange , almost disembodied , but my feet carried me to the green door and I pushed it open . |
| 25 | Crilly took me to the old town once ; it was a sooty place just north of the city , bordered by cakey cliffs and a greasy sliver of sea and a forlorn lighthouse jutting into the grey Irish sky , flashing blurry and red through the low clouds , omitting a lackadaisical moo only from time to time . |
| 26 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 27 | We always said that someone at the office called Jenkins had taken me to the local wine bar after work and we 'd run into some old girlfriend of his and Gillian who knew this girl vaguely was with her and we sort of got on immediately and made another date . |
| 28 | He introduced me to the local shoemender , he showed me where the gypsies sometimes camped . |
| 29 | It was Chief Fyvie who first introduced me to the fine travelogue books of H.V. Morton when he loaned me a copy of ‘ In Search of Scotland ’ . |
| 30 | But that , of course , brings me to the fundamental question : how will the code be made to stick where it is most needed ? |