Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] to my " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I want is silence , and to go back to my father 's house . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd slipped out of bed , leaving Margot the launderess and her sister Phoebe gently snoring ( they sleep on either side to keep me warm ) , and crept downstairs to my secret chamber , behind the high table in the Great Hall . |
| 3 | So I 'll blur over the consequences for Ulster and hurry on to my next point — the re-establishment of an Irish House of Lords , the first since 1801 . |
| 4 | Make sure you 're not followed , and slip over to my flat . ’ |
| 5 | I shook my head and bent back to my work , but every now and again , as I was writing or just thinking , a niggling little side-track thought would distract me , and I 'd find myself remembering Janice 's words , and wondering what exactly Uncle Rory might have hidden within his later work ( if he really had hidden anything ) . |
| 6 | I went as far as the Galilee Gate , I turned and came back to my church . |
| 7 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 8 | I ignore him and dive down to my furniture underworld to etch the bizarre scene on my mind once more . |
| 9 | I leave it all up to Rob as I blank out my mind and hang on to my sanity . |
| 10 | I managed to leave the children and travel straight to my mother 's to help her make all the arrangements . |
| 11 | I read Mr. Duckworth 's letter ( November '91 ) with great interest and rushed off to my machine to try out his cast off . |
| 12 | I 'll go and see the car and get back to my flat , and I 'll pick you up at seven-thirty tomorrow . |
| 13 | By then I have to admit I wanted to stop talking and get back to my quiet one-to-one relationship with Dawn . |
| 14 | I knelt choking , sharp thorns in my throat , acid tears burning my cheeks and dripping down to my young mother 's face , staring up from the floor . |
| 15 | Although the house was dark and frightening , with its big rooms full of heavy furniture , I was excited at being in a new place , and looked forward to my new life there , working for kind Mrs Fairfax . |
| 16 | I entered into the spirit of the occasion by volunteering as one of about twenty stage guinea pigs , but within minutes I had been weeded out and sent back to my seat . |
| 17 | I got past the consultant and sent back to my GP and she immediately said , ‘ You 've been very naughty , you 've got to have your breast removed , never mind what you found here and there , I am going to send you back to someone in London who 'll take it off ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ You have been kidnapped and brought here to my house . |
| 19 | While she started sorting out the lettuce from the spinach I took my leave and went up to my room . |
| 20 | So saying , I left them and went back to my work on the machine . |
| 21 | I told her she must use plenty of weights with the ribber and went back to my knitting . |
| 22 | I said ‘ Come in , ’ sat them down , listened and then talked and finally got rid of them and went back to my poem . |
| 23 | I excused myself and went back to my room , not feeling very reassured . |
| 24 | I stalked out of the hall , quite pleased with myself , and went back to my own chamber . |
| 25 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , reasonably , ’ I say with a smile and turn back to my work . |
| 27 | He 'd found out that there was a public mortuary in Bala and to get on to my GP about it . |
| 28 | I felt about me ; and my hands came in contact with several fishes , some of which seemed to be still alive , for they squirmed in my fingers , and slipped back to my feet . |
| 29 | At Chicago airport , I filled in a ‘ missing baggage ’ form and set off to my hotel , minus socks , tights , knickers and shoes , except for the ones I was wearing . |
| 30 | I found a niche where a small landslide had left a level lawn with a backing of turf ; and where the breeze still moved enough to allay the midges , and sat down to my picnic . |