Example sentences of "i [vb past] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went into one house and er you so I came in and I got to about sort of I do n't know , roughly there I think it was and she said , do you have any objection to cats ? |
| 2 | I got to in a minute . |
| 3 | The rest was easy and I got to within a hundred yards . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to on Friday night , ’ she reminded him caustically . |
| 5 | I moved to from Nelson and that 's when I was big . |
| 6 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 7 | Readers who have been to one of my knit-club talks , will remember the prototype shown there which I referred to as the ‘ Knit-club Jumper ’ , because of the ease of making the basic jumper look different at each club meeting , just by changing the collar ! |
| 8 | Nonetheless , the flow-chart-cum-module model is much more open to interpretation in terms of localization ( if only because both are normally explained and displayed spatially ) , and therefore any explication of consciousness in their terms will tend to be a localized model , or what I referred to as a pinball-machine view of consciousness , one that seems to me a priori implausible . |
| 9 | These were the two sides of the same coin which I referred to at the beginning of this essay , the nature — culture opposition and the particular characterizations and choice of emphases here explored being one explanation for the apparent gender differentials in blood within Jewish ritual practice , and one link at least between the rite of circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 10 | I have also enclosed a few of the papers I referred to at the beginning of the meeting , plus a travel claim form which you are welcome to use . |
| 11 | I am no molecular biologist , and would n't have dreamed of learning the techniques required to detect the immediate early genes , if it had n't been for the serendipitous arrival in the lab of a young molecular biologist from Moscow , Kostya Anokhin ( grandson of the psychologist and physiologist pupil of Pavlov , Peter Anokhin , whose ‘ functional systems theory ’ I referred to in passing in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 12 | This sort of analysis is substantially similar to Jakobson 's discussion of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ ( Sebeok 1971 : 371–2 ) , which I referred to in the last chapter , and it may well be that the New Critics ' influence lay behind Jakobson 's arguments there . |
| 13 | Therefore , if I just looked at some of those policy teams that I referred to in my presentation , I would expect , and it 's happening , that we would be taking on board , in each of those policy teams , the policy development work that 's applicable to Europe . |
| 14 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |
| 15 | What then are the more detailed conclusions I came to about the nature of the social work service ? |
| 16 | I came to in a taxi , my painful head on a woman 's lap . |
| 17 | I came to in a dentist-type chair , surrounded by Charlie 's Angels — a pink one , a blue one and a green one . |
| 18 | And erm I ca I came to in the first place because it was the best teaching hospital in the Midlands at that time . |
| 19 | And so , on a blustery February evening in the very middle of the South Pacific summer and , I was warned , of the hurricane season — I flew to within striking distance of Tafahi from an airfield in the Republic of Fiji . |
| 20 | yeah but having said that erm that was something I wanted to ask you about because I mean both , both of them might need some money for higher education so , whilst I 'd like to put that sum money on one side , I 'd also possibly , you know if the need arose , would like to use it myself if I needed to for , for higher education . |
| 21 | Most dishearteningly , Sports Illustrated , the country 's premier sports magazine , sent over ex-Patriot Clive Gammon ( who I talked to at the US-New Zealand and England matches ) but not one line has appeared in the magazine yet . |
| 22 | A psychiatric nurse I talked to in Sheffield works twenty-eight hours and takes home £51 to keep herself and two children . |
| 23 | I 'd , I went to with my friends on Tuesday and . |
| 24 | Last year 's was no la it ca n't be the same one then cos last year 's was absolutely terrible , the one I went to with Right Said Fred was amazing I think someone else did go to that , Sue-Anna or somebody ? |
| 25 | With Wendy I went to at least one of the famous lunchtime concerts organised by Dame Myra Hess at the National Gallery . |
| 26 | I went to school at ordinary time from as a kid and then up to till you 're about eight years old , then from eight years eight , nine , then you , I went to for about last four years . |
| 27 | If I was cynical , Bill , I 'd say it 's a good way of making a bit of extra money , and that was confirmed at a meeting I went to of motor traders the other day . |
| 28 | It is a wearying business , and I find myself thinking again and again of the lecture I went to on surviving in dangerous situations . |
| 29 | I mean that thing I went to on Wednesday it must have cost thousands of pounds . |
| 30 | I remember the first gig I went to in Cleveland , the grand piano was two feet too short . |