Example sentences of "to [noun] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So anyway I went to Index cos I want I want and a watch I 'm looking for a watch cos , and I thought oh aye I come to rings , I thought well I owe her a ring so I thought oh better half eternity ring they 're cheap anyway . |
| 2 | My sisters dressed me up in their dresses and paraded me down the road and we listened to Van and I learned to love Van . |
| 3 | I 've never had an honorary degree before , in fact I come from a generation which found it difficult to get to university so I did n't have a degree of any kind |
| 4 | I never wanted to go to university although I do know , however , that my mum and dad always had it in the back of their minds that I would go . |
| 5 | We stayed friends even though he went to university and I did n't , even though he went off to Nineveh and Distant Ophir and I did n't , even though I went into the Bank and had a steady job while he flitted from one bit of temporary work to another and eventually ended up teaching English as a foreign language in a side street off the Edgware Road . |
| 6 | " Eva is going to university if I have to go to the wash-tub to get her there , " she announced . |
| 7 | I have heard from Prudential Property Services with details of your proposed purchase of the above property for £52,000 subject to Contract and I expect that I shall be receiving the draft Contract from the vendor 's solicitors in the course of the next post but perhaps you will kindly telephone me and let me know whether you wish me to proceed with the Preliminary Enquiries arising thereon and the Local search with the East Herts District Council . |
| 8 | I have always enjoyed going to Highfield Holiday park and to Clacton because I know that when you get there , there always seem to be a lot of people who make the effort to welcome people to the Holiday park and they have always seemed friendly and if anything was wrong i.e. you lose something or somebody accidentally falls and hurts themselves or indeed somebody else the staff are always quick to help and so are a lot of other people who are on holiday there . |
| 9 | Friday : ‘ I intended to go to Ponty but I have cooled off a bit now . |
| 10 | The driver could take me all the way to Inverness if I wanted . |
| 11 | He said he wanted to explain something to Beryl but I 've no idea what . |
| 12 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 13 | ‘ But do n't take it to heart if I do n't follow your advice . |
| 14 | Then it came to March and I did n't come on . |
| 15 | When I saw the monster from the marsh , one night , I was , I was , I was frightened , I , I , I , I was he looked liked a when I saw him I ran back to camp and I felt frightened , I hid under my sleeping bag the end |
| 16 | I think I was then as near to hysteria as I have been in the whole of my life . |
| 17 | I wanted to suggest it to Sarah but I did n't know how Mam would feel about it . |
| 18 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 19 | I 'm not suited to fatherhood and I had n't any wish to be made ridiculous by paternity suits . |
| 20 | We used to like to go to clubs and I did n't like going by myself and Calvin was a great escort . |
| 21 | we took her up to Norfolk and I think among the sheep |
| 22 | There is a feeling of partnership and a commitment to partnership that I have not seen before . |
| 23 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |
| 24 | Of course I am addicted to Alexis although I admit the entire thing is very far fetched . |
| 25 | ‘ But , unfortunately , this undesirable side to your brother 's character only came to light after I 'd hired you . |
| 26 | It all came to light when I travelled from Bradford to London to take part in a television programme about multiculturalism . |
| 27 | See , I was talking to Steven and I got lost . |
| 28 | Presumably all this applies equally well to , to shops because I suppose you could link up the cash registers to some sort of stock control , so that you could almost keep a running total of what you , you have in stock as you erm punch the appropriate numbers up on the , on the till ? |
| 29 | ‘ We must be nearly in range by now , ’ I said to Jean as I turned back to channel 20 . |
| 30 | For example that of Joe and Biddy which turns out to be a very happy , contented marriage reflecting around home life and this marriage depriving Pip of the chance to propose to Biddy though I think that she would have refused on the grounds that he was still in love with Estella . |