Example sentences of "i have [adv] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 2 | Still , I 'd always tried hard to be a good golfer , and playing off three handicap I knew would stand me in good stead . |
| 3 | Er then he made the I 'd better cut back to the business card because you jumped into the statement of purpose erm you assum er there was an assumed er was okay erm I put superb and I ca n't remember what that actually was there . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 'd better go on to Granny Fordham 's . |
| 5 | I 'd better go down to Episkopi . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd better go back to my place — my suit 's there . ’ |
| 7 | Ooh , I 'd better go back to work had n't I ? |
| 8 | I 'd better live up to tradition and carry you over the threshold ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'd better get back to the hotel and pack . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ As I said , I 'd better get back to the hotel . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not sure what time he 'll be through with his meeting , but perhaps I 'd better get back to the hotel and show willing just in case he 's there . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , I 'd better get off to bed . |
| 13 | Not only had I written to ask Mr Briggs more about him , I had also written twice to Mrs Fairfax . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's brilliant , a Verdon for bumblies ’ I had joyfully called down to Mick , on climbing the first of these pitches during an earlier attempt . |
| 15 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 16 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 17 | The you walk down one street , and you say , ‘ Well I had better get back to my bearings , or I shall lose myself and you go back to the town hall . |
| 18 | on the faxes , just erm one item that came up really from yesterday which I 've already passed on to , to Sheila from the south cos it was raised at the south meeting but I think it 's relevant to everybody . |
| 19 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 20 | No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets . |
| 21 | I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know . |
| 22 | you were n't in and I could n't , I could n't find telephone number to give him a ring , I 've just got , I 've just got through to Directory Enquiries , got the number , just gon na dial it and gran says Annette 's home . |
| 23 | I 've just got back to England . |
| 24 | We lived a fairly isolated life , and I do n't think I 've ever learnt how to be at ease socially . |
| 25 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 26 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 27 | I 've never looked forward to new stuff from any band as much as I do from the Mondays . |
| 28 | Not the police — I 've never looked up to them . |
| 29 | I 've only read up to the bit where he 's standing near the hooker . |
| 30 | However — particularly in this chapter — I have also referred freely to the research strategies adopted in specific projects , so that readers might assess how they have been implemented in the field . |