Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then it was up to me to go back to the script and find what I could to give me a lead . |
| 2 | My mother wanted me to go down to the bungalow with them and because I wanted — I wanted our relations to improve — well , I said I would . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | ‘ Does Faye … or Dr Greene … want me to go in to the hospital ? ’ |
| 5 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 6 | Something made me glance over to the long french windows leading to the back verandah , and there she was : Poppy , dressed from head to foot in black . |
| 7 | You would n't catch me walking back to the house alone at night . |
| 8 | I met Charlie , and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service . |
| 9 | I crept around to the back of the house and watched as he carried her through the kitchen and into the garage . |
| 10 | In the dead of night I crept down to the breakfast room , the nerve centre . |
| 11 | I led on to the subject of the probability of his having shortly to be released from his pain and suffering and hoped that his trust was in his Saviour and he replied , ‘ Oh yes , it is ! |
| 12 | I sit down to the table , and watch me , real men are n't like that are they ? and it locks |
| 13 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 14 | So , at half-past eleven that night , Sapt and I rode out to the house in New Avenue . |
| 15 | Anyway , I got through to the finals , that was really nerve-racking , and my mum and my boyfriend came along to see me in it . |
| 16 | But I must have felt the need for some support , because I found I 'd grabbed hold of one of my hammers — a geologist is always armed with a hammer — and when I got through to the back of the house he was there already , at the kitchen window . ’ |
| 17 | and rung the A A , so as I got through to the A A man I says erm , you know , I says I , where I was parked and all like that and where I was stood and the chap says oh I 'll get a , a van up to ya as soon as I can , but I says wait a minute , I says my car 's just arrived and Joan was the mechanic , he lifted bonnet up and touched something and you brought it down did n't you ? |
| 18 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 19 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 20 | I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale . |
| 21 | And then I got on to the , I was convenor of the housing allocation committee for very many years . |
| 22 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
| 23 | I had a busy day and it was after six o'clock before I got round to The Laurels . |
| 24 | I got out to the shops this afternoon and have you noticed they 're into Christmas already ? |
| 25 | I got out to the end of the runway first , applied my brakes and did my run-up and magneto checks , whilst waiting impatiently for the oil temperature to rise to the required degree . |
| 26 | When I got down to the park , the combination of the cold and my long sleep that afternoon made me feel too restless to contemplate actually going to sleep again , so I just sat there on one of the benches , thinking . |
| 27 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 28 | Which again is a part of the luck which probably saved me and er when I got down to the pump which was directly below where the explosion occurred , there was about three or four of us there and er as I said that the only indication that we got out it was a an enormous bang just directly overhead . |
| 29 | When I got back to the block there it was sitting on the table beside the empty bowls waiting for soup : an extra biscuit each , spread with liver paste , and half a quarter pound slab of chocolate . |
| 30 | When I got back to the car , the fern was sitting in the boot in its pot looking exceedingly perky , if a fern can look perky . |