Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it made sense at least to stretch my cramped legs , so I strolled down to the edge of the lake and lit a cigarette . |
| 2 | ‘ So I went up to him . |
| 3 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |
| 4 | There was no answer to my knock so I went round to the side door facing the canal . |
| 5 | It was groceries , peas , baked beans and things , so I went round to somebody 's house and asked if she 'd like to buy the Weetabix because I wanted the money for a pie . |
| 6 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 7 | ’ So I went down to the canal . |
| 8 | It seemed as good a time as any to go , so I went down to the squat in the King 's Road where I was living and picked up my passport . |
| 9 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 10 | By early evening , I was just too bored to stick the place any longer so I went back to the hotel . |
| 11 | As for me , I had to wait the whole summer and into the late autumn for rehearsals of The Jungle Book to begin , so I went back to South London , happy in the knowledge that soon I 'd be in a professional production and there 'd be someone in the cast for me to fall in love with . |
| 12 | ‘ So I went back to Alassio and at the end of the month Constanza came to pick me up and to tell her mother . |
| 13 | I thought it would be great down there , but I started having a bad time so I went back to Newcastle . |
| 14 | Their life was already hard enough , so I went back to the wild fruit in the woods . |
| 15 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
| 16 | But I was still Queen of Scots , so I came back to Scotland . |
| 17 | I assumed the Maggot was delivering or picking up a customer , but it was none of my business , so I stripped down to my shorts and began work as Thessy , his brother Philemon and their father took a battered wooden skiff across the lagoon . |
| 18 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 19 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 20 | There was n't time to read anything then , so I nipped back to my flat and found a Virgin Records plastic bag to hide them in . |
| 21 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 22 | I remember once I got on to Norton because there was this I wanted to get to but I did do some shepherding there , and that was another fun , carrying , and that 's a winter job , carrying the sheep hurdling , hurdles and stakes , I worked with a gypsy , a Romany gypsy , and he could n't speak very much , and tended to sing , as if something not quite right about him . |
| 23 | I 've er , thank you , I 've never seen a fox hunt erm I 've er I think once er , once I got along to Cutts Close where the Boxing Day meet occurs and I can well accept that this Boxing Day meet draws a larger crowd of people from Oakham than any other activity through the year . |
| 24 | I said nervously ‘ Oh , I thought perhaps you would teach me Mr Samuel if I came up to London for lessons ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Leeds were always at the back of my mind as the side I would like to join if I came back to England , ’ said the 6ft 2in , 16 stone Iro . |
| 26 | As I held it , I knew if I looked over to the bed he 'd be there , hands behind his head , stealing , this time , an image of his widow . |
| 27 | If , if I walked up to a policeman in the street and gave him a little shove , the chances are he would arrest me , unless it was done in a totally friendly way . |
| 28 | " If I went over to the hotel now and had supper , that would give you about an hour to find a man and get ready . |
| 29 | Yes , but beating , I smoke sixty cigarettes a day and I would n't care just now , if I went up to twenty stone ! |
| 30 | I reckoned , however , that if I went back to Edinburgh , I could see Leslie for the occasional ‘ forty-eight hours ’ . |