Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sisters dressed me up in their dresses and paraded me down the road and we listened to Van and I learned to love Van . |
| 2 | I have always enjoyed going to Highfield Holiday park and to Clacton because I know that when you get there , there always seem to be a lot of people who make the effort to welcome people to the Holiday park and they have always seemed friendly and if anything was wrong i.e. you lose something or somebody accidentally falls and hurts themselves or indeed somebody else the staff are always quick to help and so are a lot of other people who are on holiday there . |
| 3 | Friday : ‘ I intended to go to Ponty but I have cooled off a bit now . |
| 4 | The driver could take me all the way to Inverness if I wanted . |
| 5 | He said he wanted to explain something to Beryl but I 've no idea what . |
| 6 | Then it came to March and I did n't come on . |
| 7 | I wanted to suggest it to Sarah but I did n't know how Mam would feel about it . |
| 8 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 9 | we took her up to Norfolk and I think among the sheep |
| 10 | It was on one of these weekend trips to Regina that I wrote my first outside interview for the paper — an interview with John Philip Sousa . |
| 11 | Of course I am addicted to Alexis although I admit the entire thing is very far fetched . |
| 12 | See , I was talking to Steven and I got lost . |
| 13 | ‘ We must be nearly in range by now , ’ I said to Jean as I turned back to channel 20 . |
| 14 | For example that of Joe and Biddy which turns out to be a very happy , contented marriage reflecting around home life and this marriage depriving Pip of the chance to propose to Biddy though I think that she would have refused on the grounds that he was still in love with Estella . |
| 15 | As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up . |
| 16 | I commented to Miklós that I had little hope of the New World solving the problems of the Old when it could not face up to its own difficulties . |
| 17 | I 've spoken to Angela and Angela said , just alter the week numbers on the , on your P forty five , but as I 've just said to Neil if I do that , that is gon na throw it out for year end when I give you yo your green slip . |
| 18 | Yeah but like if wan na catch someone out , like you go say you were talking to Scott and I wanted to find out something and like I go Scott , and like I 'll be going up close to him , I 'm literally doing this , I 'm going Scott ? |
| 19 | We were to do it from Friday to Friday but I turned on the tapes on , when was it |
| 20 | We were told to take food and water on a train going down to Mandalay and I remember taking the Mothers ' Union tea urn ! |
| 21 | I had gone for further studies to Pakistan and I got married there . |
| 22 | And after you 've sent your signal to Athens and I 've composed a suitably stirring message to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington . ’ |
| 23 | But if you 'd come after me , and I 'm sure you would have done , you' d have dragged me back to England and I did n't want to leave Leinster . " |
| 24 | ‘ If you had come to England as I thought you would have done , ’ she interrupted frostily . |
| 25 | He has stopped driving out to Wellport but I bet he misses our time there , its vigourlessness so safe and morally neutral , when he wore the passive uniform of old age . |
| 26 | She 'd bought some fancy underwear and was showing it to Franca and I came in and made some remarks . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 28 | I wanted to go to Scotland and I remember I came to say goodbye to my parents and that was in the evening and I went by train to Liverpool Street and it was pouring with rain and I had to make my way , I had a taxi across to Euston , you see , and er and I went up th the left side of the country , see , past Carlisle and and then across and across and then and to Greenock er er to Dunoon , you see . |
| 29 | Last summer he went to Scotland and I stayed in London . ’ |
| 30 | I think er it 's tragic what happened to Ray and I think it 's also tragic what 's happening to people . |