Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 2 | And so we bring er a special sort of er expertise I suppose to the talks but also the experience of retirement which we think is is really good by someone who has already retired enjoying retirement to be able come to talk to people . |
| 3 | What I 've just been saying about the importance of time and movement in Proust 's novel give rise I think to a further question . |
| 4 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 5 | In this case I refer to the DG issues of Domingo ‘ Arias and Tangos ’ and the Wunderlich five-CD collection . |
| 6 | ‘ I feel fine and in any case I wanted to be here in person and not have to watch you on television . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , in case I seem to be just er avoiding the question , er I would have to say that this has been asked for before and we have resisted time and again , that 's the history of the matter , on the grounds that what these parents are really asking for is baptism and it 's our opportunity to er , to speak in these terms er and it 's a gold golden opportunity if they actually come to us . |
| 8 | Chairman I have to but I moved conservative resolution and I am now the debate problem . |
| 9 | A bus driver I spoke to in told me that the tinkers stayed down from . |
| 10 | For an instant I seemed to be staring into smoke . |
| 11 | ‘ When a show in town catches my fancy I go to it . |
| 12 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | ‘ If you will only accept the offer of payment I made to you earlier , then the rest of the debt will be paid very shortly . ’ |
| 15 | Well I worked there and then er quite a bit I had to w they had me working on the main road . |
| 16 | Mum I want to cuddled ! |
| 17 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 20 | And of course I listened to Elmore James , and all the Delta players — Tampa Red , Robert Pete Williams and Mississippi John Hurt . |
| 21 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 22 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 23 | But they still worked it that if you were working , of course I went to the Ministry of Supply |
| 24 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 25 | But of course I had to back off because you pulled out of it , and started fighting again . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Of course I talked to him , ’ said Andrus . |
| 27 | After a reasonable second class in Part I of the mathematics Tripos I transferred to theology : my tutor , Fred Marsh , gave me a deep love and critical understanding of the Old Testament , but was realistic about my chances in the theological Tripos . |
| 28 | Now yesterday afternoon I said to our Joe I fancies a bit of chocolate . |
| 29 | In the afternoon I attend to the needs of the inhabitants of the Smoking Room and the gallery . |
| 30 | That afternoon I went to the café at Fagurhólsmýri and bought a pair of Tuf workman boots . |