Example sentences of "[adj] i [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , without turning round , he said : ‘ I 'm sorry I lied to the police . |
| 2 | By this I refer to the acknowledged limitations on the ability to infer the contents of consciousness from any number of behavioural or physiological observations . |
| 3 | 16th December 1813 ’ … went to Mr. Architect Websters , he was from home , but Mrs. Architect was there entertaining company — cold of my feet and uncomfortable I returned to the White Hart spending my time with Mr. Richardson the drawing master — till Mr. Lishman came . ’ |
| 4 | In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London . |
| 5 | These I consigned to the waste-paper basket . |
| 6 | In 1976 I went to the States to promote ‘ Devil Woman ’ and some journalist said to me , ‘ If you 'd like to meet Elvis , I can arrange it . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In September 1922 I went to the Royal College of Music to study the piano under Harold Samuel ( the great Bach player of the time ) . |
| 9 | ‘ My parents left enough money to make sure I went to the same school as Elise , but I was never the academic type — too fond of games . |
| 10 | Sure I went to the Arts and everything and stuff . |
| 11 | Being shortsighted I moved to the front while my mother stayed at the back . |
| 12 | In Chapter 1 I referred to the changing attitude among the leaders of Eurocommunism towards the institutions of Western democracy , and their radical reconsideration of the Leninist model of a revolutionary working-class party , which was elaborated in specific historical circumstances and no longer has any relevance for the politics of socialist parties , particularly in the advanced industrial societies . |
| 13 | I went through a bunch of necks and felt them , and after feeling about twenty I said to the guy , ‘ This is the one . |
| 14 | If there are more than four I go to the cupboard and nip cognacs till it 's all over for me , my dear ’ , or ‘ Last Sunday I had a fearful crise . |
| 15 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 16 | Next I listened to the recent EMI disc comprising Dvořák 's American and Smetana 's From my life Quartets performed by the Alban Berg Quartet . |
| 17 | The whole together is three syllables and pleasing I think to the tongue . |
| 18 | When at last I came to the start of the mad little road to Lochinver , I followed it over the bleak moorland , Stac Polly now appearing as a black spire in a halo of sunlight . |