Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 2 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 3 | But they still worked it that if you were working , of course I went to the Ministry of Supply |
| 4 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 5 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 6 | That afternoon I went to the café at Fagurhólsmýri and bought a pair of Tuf workman boots . |
| 7 | One afternoon I went to the Chelsea Hotel , to see the 1990 Tarum , shown with hats designed by Philip Somerville . |
| 8 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 10 | For my work experience I went to the local primary school where I was a classroom helper with the reception class . |
| 11 | She was transformed from the young trollop I remembered to the middle-aged reader of Trollope she had always wanted to be . |
| 12 | She was singing on stage when we arrived and by the time I had reached my seat I said to the man who was with me , this is the Salome I have been looking for . |
| 13 | Let me give you the text of a talk I gave to the Bridport Women 's Institute , before the Scandal , and when Julian and I were still developing our blueprint for the world of the future . |
| 14 | In a dream I went to the pictures , in Germany I think . |
| 15 | At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me . |
| 16 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 17 | Earlier in this article I referred to the ‘ English discovery ’ theory which underlies the a cappella renaissance , and I briefly defined the musical and stylistic qualities which , in the judgement of some , give English singers their eminence in this field . |
| 18 | That evening I went to the Charity Gala Evening in aid of Birthright , and the Keats- Shelley Memorial Association , at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair which had been opened earlier that day by Prince Edward . |
| 19 | Towards evening I went to the doctor 's house to wait for him . |
| 20 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 21 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 22 | Before the next meeting I complained to the Secretary of the Cabinet . |
| 23 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 24 | The other day I went to an area with 300,000 muslims surrounded by Serbs . |
| 25 | The next day I went to the State Bank , and there I was told , ‘ That 's fine , only we ca n't give the money to the person here . |
| 26 | One day I went to the swimming pool which had been closed earlier in the year after a near miss by a Tomahawk missile . |
| 27 | The next day I took to the drizzling streets of Cuzco with a hangover of Sacsayhuaman proportions . ) |
| 28 | Each day I walked to the new village where the old village |
| 29 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
| 30 | That night I went to the theatre and when I returned to my hotel , a quiet man in dark clothes was waiting for me . |