Example sentences of "to [pos pn] [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While waiting some of us were given a quick look behind the scenes , and then to my surprise I bumped into three members of the Gwili Railway , on a trip to collect some railway hardware . |
| 2 | Eventually I had a better bite and to my surprise I hauled in a roach of 11b 5oz . |
| 3 | Those of his generation ( to my shock I wake to the realisation of senior membership ) who call themselves writers practise all the genres and will write anything for money — even , like Auden , for a brace of cheap cigars . ’ |
| 4 | In a letter to my wife I spoke of a whole-day conference about the future of Judson College , in which I pressed the representatives of the American Baptist Mission to make Judson into an ecumenical college and to be ready to be integrated into a University unitary system . |
| 5 | When I got back to my room I waited for my friend Malleson . |