Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | that 's why Richard phoned up before Christmas said do I want to go round to his place |
| 3 | But nor did I want to go out to work . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'ad to get 'ome to me love , |
| 5 | They think it was the stress , I mean moving down to Cornwall ! |
| 6 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |
| 7 | Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future . |
| 8 | ‘ I intend hanging on to junior for a while longer yet , but I 'll let you know . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ So now you also know why I intend to hang on to you ? |
| 10 | ‘ I 've given up too many things in the past and I intend to hang on to every penny that the sale of this house fetches . |
| 11 | And I intend to go down to London . |
| 12 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 13 | I agreed to go out to Passy . |
| 14 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 15 | I was eating my tea that afternoon — they would n't let me go too — and I got called over to the Centre [ the prison officers ' operational centre within the prison ] . |
| 16 | Gradually , from the toe , that was July , and I got paralysed up to my hips and er I had no relations or anybody there , but Toc H were very good . |
| 17 | Then I got to get back to work . |
| 18 | The bad yellow-eyed woman made me take my toothbrush in case I got carted off to pokey . |
| 19 | The social worker said I should get out of the house , so I got enticed down to Age Concern and passed the afternoon there . |
| 20 | Let me go to er where I expected to go now to John the County Planning Officer . |
| 21 | of perhaps my characteristics cos I tend to go in to work at eight o'clock just before I write any more in and I do have to clear everything before I even start the day . |
| 22 | ‘ No one knows more than me how much I owe to this country , how much I vow to give back to it for what it has done to me , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 24 | On the Monday I tried to settle down to a meeting at Alexander Fleming House ( the DHSS 's headquarters at the Elephant and Castle ) with Tony Newton who had joined the department as Parliamentary Secretary for Social Security . |
| 25 | I tried to reply straight to you , but according to the postmaster here at Newcastle , you do n't exist ! ! ! |
| 26 | I tried to get closer to them . |
| 27 | I tried to climb down to the nest once . |
| 28 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 29 | I want to reach out to everybody . |
| 30 | I want to turn now to the forces which have grouped around the antiracist project and to the question of class . |