Example sentences of "i [vb past] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubled to the other side of the deck and joined the Sergeant Major and Brigadier Mills Roberts . |
| 2 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 3 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 4 | After a very pleasant lunch therefore , I taxied to the very end of the runway , turned into wind and took off . |
| 5 | At one time a business proposition came up and , thinking it would help him kick his habit , I agreed to a joint overdraft . |
| 6 | I only realized what it was when I got to the front door . |
| 7 | As soon as I got to the other side of the bank I threw myself down and started to roll . ’ |
| 8 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 9 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |
| 10 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 11 | When I got to the first rehearsal she announced , ‘ You 're all going to be in the Command Performance . ’ |
| 12 | But I was okay when I got to the first tee . ’ |
| 13 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 14 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 15 | any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule |
| 16 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 17 | The relevance of the lengthy preliminary exposition which I devoted to the modern Freudian theory of society should now begin to become apparent . |
| 18 | When I got there , I found to no great surprise that very little had survived in any reasonable condition . |
| 19 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 20 | I moved to a yellow and tartan design . |
| 21 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
| 22 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 23 | Then I moved to a different teacher to get some more , you know , experience . |
| 24 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 25 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 26 | I moved to the leaded window , looked out . |
| 27 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 28 | I was a late and I changed to an early and back to a late . |
| 29 | Moderator I reported to the general assembly last year that the Board of Social Responsibility had planned a deficit on its operation of thirty eight eventide homes amounting to a little over two million pounds . |
| 30 | In Chapter 1 I referred to the changing attitude among the leaders of Eurocommunism towards the institutions of Western democracy , and their radical reconsideration of the Leninist model of a revolutionary working-class party , which was elaborated in specific historical circumstances and no longer has any relevance for the politics of socialist parties , particularly in the advanced industrial societies . |