Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] to [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Gladly I return to God .
2 Anyway , yeah , and so , right I go to Bunnie and I , can you take me home yes , cos I 'm supposed to be going to a pizza to have pizza round my friend 's house , he goes , mm , they 're going , oh we 're starving , you have to go round to somebody 's house , I said he goes well I 'll take you stra , I 'll take you as soon as we 've had something to eat .
3 And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley .
4 to the Council Education Offices to see what school I could get him in , you see I wanted a good school for him because he was showing the ability , you know , er , and er eventually I went to Harlow Grammar school that 's what it was called then
5 We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London .
6 Mrs Field was such a grand lady , and eventually I moved to Lartington to become her lady 's maid .
7 Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him .
8 Only I spoke to Dass about the curtains , Mr Feather . "
9 So I came to Walsall again , when I left Walsall I never wanted to , to come back to Walsall er because of two reasons .
10 So I went to Smiths , got this map
11 So I went to Britain .
12 So I went to New York — and there were no jobs there , either , not unless you had a college degree or you could type a million billion words a minute .
13 So I went to Tesco 's first thing straight back from the nursery and guess what I forgot to do ?
14 The woman at the villa , Barbara Coleman , would n't tell me where it was and so I went to Durance and he was equally determined about it .
15 So I went to Ladbrokes and picked two rank outsiders and put some money on them and left .
16 So I went to Yorkshire , on the farm .
17 you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city .
18 so I went to Johnstown yesterday afternoon .
19 and er and so I said to Paul , Ann 'll get plenty conversation today .
20 So I said to Paul , well you 've done well getting windows open .
21 So I said to Rob
22 I thought going out tomorrow , so I said to Bob ,
23 and erm , he said oh we 'll have something to eat so I said to Chris they had this great big bowl of chicken tikka , ooh
24 So I said to Mick I 'm sure that 's illegal .
25 so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses
26 So I said to Robert Mapplethorpe , I do n't call that art , having your self portrait done with a whip stuck up your … ’
27 and I was er , I try and switch the machine on it would n't come on , I thought what 's going on here , so I said to Sue , ca n't switch the machine on Sue what 's going on here ? , anyway , apparently the power supply to the machine was a bit dicky , the
28 So I said to Geoff I 'll get it up the village shop .
29 Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ?
30 So I said to June , the only thing what flashed through my mind , not the fact about having the engine out or something like that but what flashed through my mind was whether it was for Beck and Pollitzers at all .
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