Example sentences of "i [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely go to her house and I do n't think she 's ever been to my flat , but our friendship is very much part of our working lives . |
| 2 | I 'm doing all these books , writing things and life is too short , time is passing too quickly , so that 's why I like my houses so much , and why I rarely go to other people 's houses . |
| 3 | ‘ I rarely used to Hasselblad . |
| 4 | I rarely talk to my parents these days , or visit the family home . |
| 5 | So next day I duly went to the synagogue , rather self-conscious in my trilby hat , surprised to find women sitting in the gallery only , much impressed with the singing of the cantor and the blowing of the ram 's horn , and a little taken aback by the quick exit at the end of the fast , presumably to get back home for the first square meal of the day . |
| 6 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 7 | Only 20 players can be named in the squad for the finals and Kernaghan said : ‘ I badly want to be part it if we get there . ’ |
| 8 | The one I mostly chat to is the biology teacher . |
| 9 | But the one I eventually went to was very good . |
| 10 | When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself . |
| 11 | Then I slowly got to my feet and they all started laughing happily as if I was n't dead after all . |
| 12 | As I hold them I slowly sink to the deep dark bottom . |
| 13 | It was as fine an afternoon as you could wish for as I slowly descended to Malham Beck , the Cove coming into view on my left as I walked down . |
| 14 | For a little while I was afraid I was going to land in the middle of a town , but I mercifully drifted to the edge of this . |
| 15 | Having a friend who lives on the Blackwater in an old Thames sailing barge , complete with sails and engine , I rather object to the notion that barges must be passively powerless . |
| 16 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 17 | I had problems with tutors trying to encourage me to diversity my work and experiment with other styles , but I was quite happy with the direction my work was heading so I stubbornly stuck to it . |
| 18 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 19 | The second category , overall impression , involves listening to all the adjectives describing the person and thereby forming an overall impression ; ‘ [ I ] assessed the overall impression left once all the words had been read out ’ or ‘ I was not conscious of using any strategy in particular at the time , but I guess I merely listened to all the traits and tried to gain an overall impression . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I merely agreed to it . |
| 21 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 22 | Then there 's another neck that comes across the other way and you can tune the strings any way you want ; I basically tune to groups of diatonic notes with whatever melody I want to play . |
| 23 | Afterwards , having made desperately light of the gaffe , I defensively hissed to Jack : ‘ Well , it 's not pronounced Botha is it ? |
| 24 | I say , the reason I think I had bad dreams , recently , in the last sort of three nights , is because they 're the three nights I went swimming early , so I thought I better go to bed early . |
| 25 | Here I better listen to that to see if they were talking about me . |
| 26 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 27 | I personally like to idea of meetings like this , both because of the element of local co-operation and also because we can hear the views of other people , railway sympathisers rather than railway enthusiasts perhaps , on how railways fit into the scene . |
| 28 | photography , I personally talking to people about jobs |
| 29 | Another ludicrous character in this chapter is the cheshire cat , who I personally find to be one of the nicest characters . |
| 30 | Von Sophias Jonnifer , who I personally consider to be capable of winning anywhere in the world . |