Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second drawing I submit to your lively discernment is the indigo bush , from which a deep and lustrous shade of blue is obtained by a kind of alchemy . |
| 2 | The second point I want to er make Mr Deputy Speaker wholly relating to this erm er clutch of er orders of which er eighteen plus the er the schedule which the minister did n't have time to go through in great detail , is the thrust of why I put the amendment down erm in fact that this order should not be er erm approved indeed until the citizens of Gibraltar have been and able to be represented in the European parliament . |
| 3 | By the second night I had to be scraped from the floor and dragged two miles to the only shop in the vicinity to buy something which could pass as edible . |
| 4 | ‘ When I lost that opening game in the fourth set I said to myself ‘ this is your match ’ . |
| 5 | Oh I was and I used to go , and the first place I went to , let me think , it was Dunoon . |
| 6 | ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score ! |
| 7 | ‘ I went to the Defence Ministry stand — but the first person I spoke to simply shrugged and walked away . |
| 8 | That 's my first station I came to Zurich . |
| 9 | I remember the first gig I went to in Cleveland , the grand piano was two feet too short . |
| 10 | And when I came , erm , the first , first month I came to Brussels I thought oh . |
| 11 | The first tournament I went to was at Tucson , Arizona , and I became what they call a ‘ parking-lot caddie ’ . |
| 12 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 13 | See the first week I went to these schools they could n't speak a word of Punjabi . |
| 14 | So I 've got me jeans on and the first word I says to him is so why have you shaved your moustache off Dave ? |
| 15 | The first agency I went to sent me to a photographer to have some pictures taken for my portfolio . |
| 16 | The first thing I sent to London magazine Girl About Town , a light-hearted article about computer dating , was accepted . |
| 17 | The first thing I said to the commissioning editors when I met them is that I would not commission one programme . |
| 18 | That were first thing I said to her this morning , I says d' ya ask |
| 19 | Yeah the very first school I went to was quite disciplined . |
| 20 | Then I darted breathless and sodden into the first hotel I came to . |
| 21 | The first time I went to prison I was nineteen . |
| 22 | The first time I went to prison I had already had the baby , but he was taken away from me in hospital . |
| 23 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 24 | First time I went to London , I was about as old as Emily , I went with , we went with the Brownies for the trip , we went to the zoo |
| 25 | First time I went to the zoo I was erm |
| 26 | I remember that the first time I came to Semer Water was as a boy on my bike . |
| 27 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 28 | You know , Shelley , I suspected there was something between you and Rafaelo the first time I talked to him . |
| 29 | Oh they , on the last interview I went to they said you no need to have had experience |
| 30 | Before the next meeting I complained to the Secretary of the Cabinet . |