Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How could you say such a thing , ’ he begins , ‘ With me in bits and pacing the streets like a fockin' animal , with no one but the likes of Perry to pour me heart out to ! ’ |
| 2 | But imposition of direct management by local family health services authority executives will demotivate those many general practitioners for whom responsibility directly to patients is a major source of vocational pride . |
| 3 | It was late at night and I decided , I was just sort of talking I 'd say , I ca n't get rid of this headache , and I do n't know what I 'm gon na do , I do n't whether I should just not worry about it cos I 'm not that old , and I was really pouring my heart out to him , and he turns round and he says , yeah , you need a new clutch you really need a new clutch . |
| 4 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 5 | I will grow my hair out to its natural colour until it falls long and lank about my shoulders , allow my skin to fade to a startling winter white . |
| 6 | Will you commute or should I move my base down to London ? ’ |
| 7 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 8 | I cast my mind back to the South Coast of England . |
| 9 | This story took my mind back to a survey on driving that was published a while ago on the differences between men and women behind the wheel . |
| 10 | I cast my mind back to our excited departure from Gatwick airport . |
| 11 | I must get my mind back to the here and now . |
| 12 | And the Substitute had better be with me — tell Bacci he can take my car down to Florence , I do n't really need him and the Substitute can take me back with him … |
| 13 | I 'm a great believer in it , I , I park my car close to that and find it a most convenient way of travelling around . |
| 14 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 15 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 16 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 17 | My research up to 1970 was in cosmology , the study of the universe on a large scale . |
| 18 | As I waited at the King 's Stairs for my boat back to Venturous I was approached by two very splendidly attired and heavily braided Merchant Service Officers whom I had noticed staring at me curiously during the reception . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't worked for my degree just to be handed a cosy role in the family firm ! |
| 20 | Can I pass all my correspondence on to members of |
| 21 | And if , when I turn my Mac on to upload this article , you hear James Brown screaming : ‘ Fellas , I 'm ready to get up an ’ do MAH thang ! ’ do n't fret . |
| 22 | In his professional opinion this was overreaction on my part , and he was extremely inconvenienced by my insistence not to be examined internally by him . |
| 23 | Such training and preparation brought both me and my marriage almost to breaking-point . |
| 24 | When , with a shout , I jerked my eye back to its hole there was no smoke anywhere , only the necessary building , perfect , even to the irises and the low picket fence that lined its path , before which ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ now stood , with one arm crooked and raised . |
| 25 | And then I was in bed , with sheets riveted over my body up to my chin . |
| 26 | When I die , I want you to take my body back to Windsor . |
| 27 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 28 | I held my ticket tightly to me and smiled at the thought . |
| 29 | This sympathy ( and attention ) hardened my resolve not to be put upon . |
| 30 | ‘ I managed to punch my boilie out to the edge of a gravel bar about 60 yeards out , but I had to play the fish towards the top as I brought it in because there are a lot of boulders on the bottom , ’ explained Lee . |