Example sentences of "the [noun sg] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the afternoon I attend to the needs of the inhabitants of the Smoking Room and the gallery . |
| 2 | So , I tell you what , if , if we do end up spending Christmas at gon na give me the present I got to Di and said thank you Di for giving Stella the Christmas present . |
| 3 | I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way . |
| 4 | Just got erm , I mean was out in the stick I like to just half a dozen little flight of stairs perhaps with a dozen steps |
| 5 | Yes , even Miss Sowerby — ’ and breaking the tension I smiled to her and said , ‘ Sorry about the ‘ even ’ . ’ |
| 6 | Other 's forgive me for the wrong doing , and for the harm I do to them , but it 's only God who can forgive my sin . |
| 7 | Earlier in the chapter I referred to ‘ judicious ’ ignoring ; you have to judge when it is best to ignore certain childish actions . |
| 8 | But it is so poorly executed , muddled in its narrative and just plain old-fashioned dull that the screening I went to was soon humming with critical snores . |
| 9 | What I w what I will say to my honourable , my right honourable friend is that er when I recently visited the United States I did find that the , on which our training and enterprise councils have been based , have provided a very valuable experience for us in learning the lessons that he had indicated of ensuring that the private sector is fully involved in decisions over training and I believe that the figure I gave to my honourable friend early today , combined with over two billion that my department spends on training , forms a very effective public private sector partnership . |
| 10 | No matter where I wander I am haunted by your name The portrait of your beauty stays the same sailing on the ocean wondering where you are if you 'll return again where is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain … |
| 11 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 12 | The issue I refer to had Stephen Morris ( New Order ) on the cover ( sort of ) and cost 75p ! |
| 13 | Yeah because erm , poor thingy , the girl I went to school with she went on to Spring Hill when she was fifteen , see you could go on to grammar school when you were fifteen then as well as going at eleven |
| 14 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 15 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 16 | The bloke I spoke to . |
| 17 | The question I return to , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , is always the same : I put everything into this , everything I had by way of mind and body and heart , and this is what I have produced . |
| 18 | Together , these two chapters constitute an attempt to address the question I consider to be of overriding importance , which is not whether male/female differences exist ( they do ) , what they are or what causes them , but what they mean : what significant social uses are made of them , or more accurately of discourse about them . |
| 19 | The habitat I refer to , as you may have guessed , is the garden . |
| 20 | If you 're vaguely interested I can arrange an interview with the lady I spoke to on their resettlement team , but if you do n't like the sound of it … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The lady I spoke to that first time I rang up . |
| 22 | It is a wearying business , and I find myself thinking again and again of the lecture I went to on surviving in dangerous situations . |
| 23 | ‘ For the moment I go to my office , and you — ? ’ |
| 24 | For the moment I cling to the idea that there are a relatively small number of cell-to-cell signals . |
| 25 | Just at the moment I seem to be getting somewhere , I 'm dragged off the case . ’ |
| 26 | As I left the room I seemed to be in a school and I saw many children in the hall and I seemed to be late for a class . |
| 27 | I will also devote some time to topic work because of the importance I attach to integrated approaches to learning . |
| 28 | ‘ I would like to make clear the importance I attach to the continued availability of advice , from within and outside the NHS , in contributing to the development of the health service in Scotland , ’ said Lord Fraser . |
| 29 | They did n't have them at the bookshop I went to , they 'd never heard of the magazine , and a friend of mine who writes poetry said he was certain it did n't exist . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I was at the Coliseum and when the bell rang at the end of the interval I noticed to my amazement that there were still women queuing outside the loo . |