Example sentences of "to the [noun] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 2 | The headmaster from 1927 to 1953 ( from the year before I was born to the year before I joined the staff ) was C. G. M. Broom : a scholar of Brasenose and , like all his predecessors , a classic in the old manner . |
| 3 | and he made me feel right guilty yesterday I , I had to buy a packet about three o'clock , so I did n't have any until three o'clock and then talk to the cat and I thought no it 's no good , Margaret I 'll have to hide this packet up |
| 4 | I would send it swooping over and under hers , or dive it down to the sands while I stood on a dune cliff , pulling the kite down to nick tall towers of sand I 'd built , then pulling up again , the kite trailing a spray of sand through the air from the collapsing tower . |
| 5 | I 've volunteered to take the stage curtains to the cleaners and I have n't done it yet I regret to say , so my apologies , it will get done eventually , er I hope . |
| 6 | I promised the money to the Church and I want to give it . |
| 7 | She offered a covenant to the Church if I came back or you were Confirmed in Faith . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd complain to the management if I refused to cut your hair ? ’ she guessed . |
| 9 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 10 | That 's why I did n't want to go to the edge because I wanted to try and do my own . |
| 11 | Well , let me tell you , you 'll know which one it is in a second — I went back , obviously years later , and I was having my beer and I finally had to go to the loo and I went into the ladies ' room and there was a big sign saying ‘ Elizabeth Taylor sat here ’ . |
| 12 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 13 | Anyway , I will risk it , not because I want to give the fish a chance ; I do not believe in giving any fish a chance , I go to the races when I want to gamble . |
| 14 | , and we went to the beach and I came back and , leap of the whole er , side of the car . |
| 15 | I I 'm very grateful to the minister but I want to ask him a straightforward question . |
| 16 | I have taken this opportunity to point them out to the Minister and I hope that something good will come of it . |
| 17 | I 'll keep away from you , my fine bucko , I thought , and if I drop anything I 'll kick it to the door before I pick it up . |
| 18 | I walked over to the door before I spoke to her . |
| 19 | When we get back to the house , Marie gives me the key to the door and I unlock it and let her go in first . |
| 20 | I done it , I did it all neat and tidy the whole way round till we got round to the door and I says you can do it , no way am I cutting round there big chunk |
| 21 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 22 | So , I have always to go back to the beginning if I want to sort something out . |
| 23 | Ye , yesterday afternoon , as a matter of fact , I walked up to the gate and I come back and I just walked across the lawn and I I felt the sun . |
| 24 | yeah pulled it up to the shed and I 've left it there |
| 25 | By now I had almost convinced Rick to change to the boilie when I had another take on the Tropicana ; this was all the convincing he needed as I landed a nice mirror around the 12lb mark . |
| 26 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 27 | All go to the pub and I stop there |
| 28 | Mick 's head disappeared from the entrance to the trench as I sat up and listened to a shell burst close by . |
| 29 | All I do to the Tokais when I get them is put five springs in the back , take the tremolo arm out and tighten all the screws at the bridge and raise the action . |
| 30 | I wan na put this er question of what this playhouse is about a back to a stage to the platform because I think that 's where it belongs er were here to criticize but not to initiate . |