Example sentences of "i [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're dropping Claudia off here , of course , then you 're taking me on to London , are n't you , Roman ? ’ |
| 2 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 3 | felt too tired to drive me on to ESF 's house , so I got there by bus , or rather by two buses ( an easy change ) , the first starting from about a hundred yards from and the other stopping just behind the Zoo by Primrose Hill and only a few minutes from Eduardo . |
| 4 | At school , I 'd write rude poems for my mates so , when a teacher turned me on to Linton Kwesi Johnson , it was like ‘ Yes ! ’ ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He really turned me on to geography . |
| 6 | This put me on to finals with the trim wound fully aft , and I was able to further check the aircraft 's inherent stability by moving hands and feet from the controls for several seconds — the Aircoupe continued down the slope as on rails ( there was little wind or turbulence ) before a gentle flare demonstrated another safety feature . |
| 7 | The revelations of evil that I had experienced had brought me only to confusion and powerlessness . |
| 8 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 9 | Afterwards , when I would have preferred to stay and stare at Agnes , he took me down to King 's Wharf near the Vintry and into a small ale house which stank of carp and salt . |
| 10 | They invited me down to Cincinnati , Ohio , to observe networked computing — or personal computers which are linked together so that information can be transferred from one to another . |
| 11 | Such ruthless honesty certainly cuts me down to size , ’ he said idly . |
| 12 | Well my other car is a nineteen twenty nine V six Bentley , which will do a hundred mile an hour , so if I drive them alternately it cuts me down to size . |
| 13 | Jamie walks me down to Brockley Cross , inhaling fresh air through his nostrils like Islanders sniff cocaine . |
| 14 | He took me down to London and I went and did an audition and I first appeared at what is now the Shaftesbury Theatre at the top of Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 15 | ‘ Alcohol did me the greatest favour , which is that it brought me down to earth . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps you could help Cook to wash up , ’ she suggested , bringing me down to earth with a bang . |
| 17 | We shall contrive some way however to get me down to Maitland town and the end of the week , when I shall make my way to Hobart Town the best way I can . |
| 18 | Perry directs me down to Euston Road and forgets to mention the turnoff , causing me to make a rather dangerous and illegal U-turn at King 's Cross . |
| 19 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 20 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 21 | Do you know why I back to Norman ? |
| 22 | ( 19 ) The whisky helped me not to stagger under the blow . |
| 23 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 24 | He shouted to the two cops to turn me over to Harvey . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , they wheeled me over to Ophthalmology so she could have a good look , ’ Faye told him . |
| 26 | If he rode me over to Romorantin to catch the early train to Paris , would I mind going out to Reine for him ? |
| 27 | They took me over to Cheapside and I was remanded in custody . |
| 28 | I 'll have her brought down here to Florence as soon as she can be moved but we 'll have to leave her where she is for the moment — in fact , put me through to Pontino again now , will you ? |
| 29 | Could you put me through to Eddie ? ’ |
| 30 | She leads me through to Jamie 's bedroom , which she has tidied . |