Example sentences of "i to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 2 | The Fernies got rid of her when I left and she walked me to the front gate . |
| 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 | That brings me to the right hon. Member for Chesterfield . |
| 10 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Which brings me to the final thing we need to discuss . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I turned to my nearest fellow browser , intending to ask her politely but firmly to lead me to the nearest padded cell , but it came out wrong . |
| 15 | I might just as well ask him to drive me to the nearest station . |
| 16 | ‘ Take me to the nearest train . |
| 17 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |
| 18 | If you could just get me to the nearest station — ’ |
| 19 | Sure enough , a high-pitched peeping drew me to the stable , and there on the floor was the hen with one minute black puff-ball of a chick . |
| 20 | Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She grabbed my arm and pulled me to the outer door . |
| 24 | ‘ Can you direct me to the private wing ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 27 | This therefore brings me to the second reason why democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality . |
| 28 | But my argument will be double-edged ; and this brings me to the second reason for discounting ‘ higher learning ’ as a chapter title . |
| 29 | That brings me to the second most surprising feature of the fossil record . |
| 30 | That brings me to the second issue that I wish to discuss — the question of anonymity , which the Secretary of State mentioned several times in his opening speech . |