Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hi , After lengthy negotiations in private , Gav & I are going along to the Sunderland game together on Wednesday . |
| 2 | On these journeys , however , he had n't been fortunate , as some of the fellows in the camp had been , in finding a cottage or a house where they were invited in to tea , which often meant , so he understood , eggs and chips or even bacon , particularly if it was a farmhouse . |
| 3 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 4 | He was rushed to Alder Hey Children 's Hospital where he was said today to be ‘ doing fine ’ . |
| 5 | She also recalled the time Tippett had ‘ flu and stayed at their home where he was nursed back to good health . |
| 6 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 7 | Leading IT Division in the 1990's is a challenge , but one that I am looking forward to enormously . |
| 8 | ‘ Not that I am looking forward to parting with Serena , of course , ’ she said mournfully . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , by the way , tell him I 'll be free for the meeting on Tuesday of next week and that I 'm looking forward to it . ’ |
| 10 | Des transmits that he found me , and I say that I 'm going over to the flats to see what 's happening , but both Des and the radio warn me off . |
| 11 | Now look here , if you honestly think that I 'm going down to the police station and verifying a story like that then you can think again ! |
| 12 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 13 | It happened that I was called back to the farm on the following Thursday to " cleanse " a cow and was in the byre when Dodson the drover called to pick up Blossom . |
| 14 | I worshipped you , Angela , thought that I was coming back to you , and when you left me , you left me with nothing . |
| 15 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 16 | I felt like a portly 60 year old man with a beard , and that I was shuffling down to the shops in my espadrilles like he does , with his horrible , ratty little dog . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My father and Edwin Garland were very close friends , so much so that I was brought up to regard Beryl and Francis as cousins . ’ |
| 18 | Vivien had been up at St Hugh 's , so I was looking forward to her being an excellent guide . |
| 19 | I was ( I think you will understand ) initially dubious about a single 10″ driver in such a small box really delivering the goods ( especially with the lower notes on my 5-string ) but was certainly intrigued by the cabinet design , so I was looking forward to giving the little beast some stick on a couple of gigs … |
| 20 | ‘ It 's over now , though , ’ she went on , ‘ so I 'm going back to my flat . |
| 21 | Once I was talking alone to Lucy in a corner , laughing together and , as I impulsively took one of her hands in both of mine , I heard a sharp cry of ‘ Lucy ! |
| 22 | Although she was looking forward to leaving the home , she felt she was n't ready to go quite yet , and her baby son had been harder to cope with than she 'd expected . |
| 23 | Michelle Howard would say nothing outside court except that she 's looking forward to it all being over . |
| 24 | Did she tell you that she 's going back to Shropshire ? ’ |
| 25 | Mrs Strange used to be at the piano when Seven Towers sang and now that she is stepping up to the rostrum , Kathryn , daughter of bass singer and choir secretary Jack Clarke , is replacing her . |
| 26 | She gave every indication that she was fed up to the teeth . |
| 27 | In fact , stimulated by the prospect ahead , she found that she was looking forward to the evening . |
| 28 | You could tell that she was looking forward to doing her number on the wart . |
| 29 | He had brilliant powers of recovery , she realised when , with his look of surprise that she was clinging on to him barely discernible , he placed his hand lovingly over hers . |
| 30 | It was in buoyant mood that she was driven back to Merchiston Lodge , and she entered her employer 's bedchamber with a smile on her lips . |