Example sentences of "i [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I wondered how I got to bed . ’ |
| 32 | once I got to bed and me brain works I thought , oh dear , the family 's coming for lunch on Tuesday so I ca n't do it ! |
| 33 | By the time I got to Python I was getting £240 a week . |
| 34 | I went passed once , I got to wedding so I |
| 35 | But I got to hospital by half-past eight in the morning and by eleven o'clock I 'd had him . |
| 36 | ‘ I expected to curry quite a lot of disfavour from almost everybody , ’ he says . |
| 37 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 38 | The ‘ things I expected to value ’ . |
| 39 | government , it it 's various years so I hate to sort of say , ah well council taxes cuts will be a bit lower er with the conservatives going to be an argument which is but halfway to equal counties so I think we can sort of discount really what the conservatives say but I will say the liberal democrats are to be . |
| 40 | I 've actually the last time I got some delivered for me was February so I tend to sort of get something about once a month I think . |
| 41 | I believe that the importance that I attach to tradition in the philosophy of art is implicit in The Story of Art . |
| 42 | Why do I need to practice that with you counting numbers up to thirty one ? |
| 43 | I tried to inch away from him but there was n't another seat to move to . |
| 44 | After a wonderful evening I said goodbye but she refused when I tried to tipper . |
| 45 | I changed to viola , and at the age of fourteen had grade eight with distinction . |
| 46 | After six weeks I got so worried about her , I changed to bottle-feeding , and she gained weight like there was no tomorrow . |
| 47 | And do you know what I say to friend greybeard ? |
| 48 | I mean Friday night we do n't do much anyway you know , I mean it 's like everything else if I do n't , if I say to mum , mum we 've got nothing to do , I mean it 's like everything else you ca n't afford to go out and do what , things that you would like to do , but you know like bingo and things , so we al , we get a game of cards going just to stop the rot and the boredom |
| 49 | Oh you will be then that 's what I say to Kev bloody well ask ! |
| 50 | I say to daddy , when I got the money mate and I 've now I 'm now putting ten pound a week for fat Harry . |
| 51 | In morning dawnlight I say to doctor sorry . |
| 52 | Councillor , my Lord Mayor , in accordance with standing order A seven B and D , I propose to Council that the debate on agenda item eleven , percentage for out policy and agenda item sixteen , notice of motion number nine , people disabilities , be combined with separate votes at the end of the debate and that a provision of the order A eleven J and A fourteen K be amended to limit the number of speakers on the combined debate to three from the controlling group and three from notion parties . |
| 53 | I report to H.Q at the appointed time . |
| 54 | I suggest to Council that we adopt the following approach : |
| 55 | I suggest to Teri that should have a share . |
| 56 | I want to re-study all of Beethoven 's Sonatas carefully , and play only two programmes , or perhaps three , in one season starting next spring . |
| 57 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 58 | and er obviously I want to sort of give you the best possible price |
| 59 | Shut the door , I want to garden . |
| 60 | Well I do , but I want I want to guy who rang in that wanted you to sit on top of his bonfire . |