Example sentences of "i [verb] to the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wants me to go to the theatre though , I do n't think she 'll enjoy Chekhov very much . |
| 2 | Well I er do n't agree that there has been er understaffing and in the statement which I made to the House today I was able to point out what a very big increase in er the total complement of the prison officers has taken place during recent years , but it 's up to Lord Justice Woolf to look in to whatever evidence is put before him , it 's for him to look at the terms of reference and he will no doubt decide what is relevant and what is not . |
| 3 | And er , if I was to put entries all the way across the top of this spreadsheet like this , and then , all the way across the bottom of the spreadsheet , do you know how I got to the bottom so quickly , by the way ? |
| 4 | ‘ Connors and I got to the hotel just as your boys were leaving , ’ I continued . |
| 5 | Describing in today 's Sunday Times of Johannesburg how he found Stompie 's body in Mrs Mandela 's house , Morgan said : ‘ One morning I got to the house early and I was told by Winnie to pick up the dog and dump him . |
| 6 | So , I got to the point where I was at ease in that community or as at ease as you can be , then spent another three weeks there . |
| 7 | ‘ I got to the point where I did n't want to play again , ’ he said . |
| 8 | A five I do n't count , I only count the ends when I got to the point where I could n't go any further . |
| 9 | I got to the stage where I went back to me mum and dad . |
| 10 | I got to the stage where I could n't see the wood for the trees . |
| 11 | I got to the stage where I just thought , well , something 's got to happen , you know ? |
| 12 | I got to the island eventually . |
| 13 | Anyway , when I got to the cafe where we were supposed to meet there 's no sign of her ! |
| 14 | I got to the ground early and strung up a ‘ Well done Les ’ banner over the turnstile , but in less than ten minutes Micky Deere had wiped his nose on one end and cleaned last week 's mud off his boots with the other . |
| 15 | And erm , this is why I say to the Co-op now er they know my feelings because my husband had only got erm he had er trans works transport which when he retired erm he , he , said well what are we going to do ? |
| 16 | I came to the ridge again . |
| 17 | Erm perhaps the Since I came to the area about four months ago , the thing that I 've noticed most is the people are very proud and they 're very friendly , very open people . |
| 18 | I came to the mountain very casually . |
| 19 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 20 | It took a conscious effort to resist the urge to close my eyes , while I signalled to the traffic behind and made an emergency stop . |
| 21 | They should have got the solicitors in and said ‘ look you 've no rights to have been here , you walked on this common land without any permission at all , you built these places without you 've got cars park and everything ’ , and now I listen to the story where the council says they 're going to run it etc. etc and etc , well what the people want , they want it cleared up , they want it back to where it was , we do n't want somebody running another business out there , this is the idea of getting him off . |
| 22 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 23 | No I listen to the radio sometimes on it . |
| 24 | There is , perhaps , especially strong confirmation that the verb and adjective properties are immediately bound together in the fact that there is no coherent way to question either the adjective or the verb alone while leaving the other in place ; we can not , for example , have : ( 24 ) what should I do to the string longer ? ( 25 ) how did his sister set the owl ? |
| 25 | I look to the day when the , to see what the tabloids make , when one of these individuals gets clobbered over the head er , in carrying out their duties . |
| 26 | With Terrie now at the helm I climbed to the spreaders again , binoculars in hand . |
| 27 | The one I 'm looking for is what , have I got to the strings yet ? |
| 28 | The second and third weekend I get to the lake just before daybreak armed with a pair of binoculars and settle down for a couple of hours in a spot which gives me a good view of all , or most , of the water . |
| 29 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 30 | If you hear of anybody that wants a any , well a as I say I get to the point where I 've got to need the work somebody , you know ? |