Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I sit down and say to myself , how can I convert a mileage reading of one hundred and fifty thousand into only ten thousand without taking the speedometer to pieces ? |
| 2 | If I sit down and talk to I 've said this and I 'll say it I 've said it ad nauseam . |
| 3 | I got up and walked to the window . |
| 4 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
| 5 | I got up and went to the corner of the parapet , from where I could see in three directions . |
| 6 | In my dream I got up and went to the office . |
| 7 | In my dream , I woke up and came to the office . |
| 8 | I dropped down and crawled to the front of the wood to have a look . |
| 9 | I turned away and said to Miss Kenton : |
| 10 | As I reached the edge of the woods and stopped playing , I turned round and waved to Colonel Young . |
| 11 | I walked over and spoke to the driver . |
| 12 | Ninagawa points out that his style , combining East and West , ritual and freedom , in many ways mirrors life in Japan : ‘ I get up and listen to Bach on my compact disc and have Japanese rice for breakfast . ’ |
| 13 | I called home and spoke to my then seven-year-old daughter who had been rehearsed by her grandparents about what she should appropriately say . |
| 14 | At Blackberry Hill , I slowed down and explained to Werewolf how I guessed that Salome , coming the other way , down the hill , had been bumped into space . |
| 15 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 16 | I go out and tend to the suffering populace and she sits at home and patronizes me . |
| 17 | ‘ Since I 've worked part time I 've also become a parent governor at the children 's school and most Fridays during term time I go in and listen to children reading . |
| 18 | I , I , would it be , would it be erm , wrong of me to ask you say , grant up to five hundred pounds , and I go in and talk to him , so we come back with a council , with a scheme . |
| 19 | Well , I went round and talked to group , but I think there 's a lot of er , about keeping everything fine and up to date at all times in all places and all the rest . |
| 20 | And I only found this out when I went in and talked to the station manager , and he looked very confused . |
| 21 | I went in and spoke to one of the secretaries who said she would er she would do it and send us material . |
| 22 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 23 | After about an hour I gave up and retired to the Met Office , very much put out . |
| 24 | Can I come over and speak to you ? |
| 25 | We also generalize about the taste of the discriminating and set up standards , useful as guides as long as one does not credit them with greater authority than a considered choice which violates them , but not without the suspect motives and tyrannical pretensions of standards in morals ; if you show signs of food-and-wine snobbery , I had better when listening to your recommendations take care to distinguish what I sense on my tongue from an affected taste . |
| 26 | I was 19 when I left home and went to university . |
| 27 | Mick 's head disappeared from the entrance to the trench as I sat up and listened to a shell burst close by . |
| 28 | ‘ I sat down and said to the doctor ‘ So I have cancer ’ and he said ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 29 | My husband 's always coming home and saying ‘ Oh I sat down and talked to so-and-so today ’ or ‘ we had a laugh today with so-and-so … ’ |
| 30 | But I sat there and listened to the bells . |