Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’ |
| 2 | I rode back to Dire Dawa , past Haramaya Lake where my parents had camped , took the train to Jibuti and then a Messageries Maritimes boat to Marseilles , third-class among a draft of the Foreign Legion ; an interesting contrast with the Mission 's journey to Aden first-class on a P and 0 with a deck reserved to ourselves . |
| 3 | So I got up to that one but |
| 4 | ‘ I dressed for sex and thought about nothing else on these trips to London and , once I was locked away with Andrew , I got up to all sorts of things I would have been too embarrassed to do with Tony . |
| 5 | I was getting forty and I got up to ninety four . |
| 6 | And but the reason that I got up to ten stone is because christmas . |
| 7 | I got down to eleven stone and then I stuck |
| 8 | He put up some token resistance : he 'd never had my advantages , it was time I got down to some hard work , and so on . |
| 9 | I got down to ten stone . |
| 10 | But I got down to ten stone . |
| 11 | I got down to ten |
| 12 | After I got back to civilian life , I fell back into the habit of admiring the Masai , but regarding them as insubstantial . |
| 13 | Not only has that disc problem proved frustrating , but so has the inactivity temporarily imposed by a series of exploratory tests to assess the damage : ‘ Having been injured in the second tour match against Queensland I got back to full fitness , played in the First Test and was looking forward to the second . |
| 14 | Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck . |
| 15 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 17 | I moved along to 27 then 28 . |
| 18 | I referred not to this one but to the principle . |
| 19 | Bleary-eyed , I staggered back to Nevski Prospect , and there I spotted a dejected-looking husband sitting in his car outside a supermarket , obviously waiting for his wife to emerge with the shopping . |
| 20 | If I hold on to these things they go , and if I let go of them they go , and so my life goes . |
| 21 | I came in to this building last year I 've got people sitting here who 've realised it was n't a happy place to be I found it quite difficult . |
| 22 | ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own . |
| 23 | I came back to such a pretty St Luke 's little summer — with pale blue skies and golden leaves and sunshine . |
| 24 | I lived with my father , then when my father died I came back to this country . |
| 25 | No I count up to ten , I keep getting up in the middle of the night to weigh myself |
| 26 | From there I walk down to one of the main boulevards . |
| 27 | In early 1981 , the Israelis had staged an air raid against the Rashidiyeh Palestinian camp — where Mrs Zamzam had her home — and I drove down to southern Lebanon from Beirut to report on the attack . |
| 28 | From New Bond Street I drove down to historic Cliveden near Taplow , for many years the home of the Astor family , which made a lovely setting for the Looking Glass Ball in aid of the Royal National Institute for the Blind 's Looking Glass Appeal . |
| 29 | I look forward to all of us joining in this great challenge of the next decade . ’ |
| 30 | I do want to tell you quite simply and sincerely how much I look forward to that . |