Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] i " in BNC.

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1 It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule .
2 In fact has it been a very difficult year for you or have you been able to have some control , because it 's all down to the watering I guess
3 Yes erm listening to the punters I mean I know loads of people come up here and there 's one thing which all of them tend to say and that this place is threatening .
4 Now coming back to the objective I say it leaves you on a high note then rather than the and that 's all I 'm gon na say tell them what you 're gon na tell them then tell them then tell them what you 've told them .
5 To you , li'l ’ Simey , and to the Church I love . ’
6 After I 'd got used to the idea I helped to count the sticks and tie them up in bundles .
7 If he had been close to the cliff I would not have been able to see him , but I could see the whole section of shoreline , and there was no boat there .
8 ‘ Yes , when I 'm listening to the drummer I 'm listening much more to the bass drum than I did before , because that 's what I have to play with . ’
9 Since the set has two transmitter power settings , 1.6W and 5.0W output power , I had hoped to find that the higher power setting would overcome by 1.5W KX99 's main failing — its inability to talk to ground stations farther that about 10nm away ; but according to the controllers I tried to speak to using both hand-helds in turn , there was only a very marginal difference between the King and the ICOM unit on either of its power settings .
10 Apart from being sick and having to keep going to the loo I loved being pregnant .
11 Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them .
12 With regard to the flats I mean , one o erm the flats have been up since the late sixties and erm now they 're gon na be coming down .
13 In the fourth place , I consider the levelling of groundless allegations to be a shameful response to the hospitality I have extended to you .
14 I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon .
15 And so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon .
16 When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days .
17 ‘ I mean facts that relate to the story I 'm working on at the time .
18 I could have turned a blind eye , but to grab it and to throw it to the hounds I think was absolutely abysmal .
19 Anybody who would to s Any s Anybody saying anything to the contrary i would very much suspect their their motives .
20 Unless I receive representation to the contrary I intend inviting Clydesdale District Council to the next meeting .
21 I ca n't agree a solution with our officers that is acceptable to the residents I represent and I put it to this council to try and get something done about it and all I get from the chairman of the committee is the officer 's comments pushed back down my throat .
22 So when I knew I had cancer and was facing death , I still could n't pray to the God I associated with the churches .
23 It goes back to the question I posed above : what motivates people to study sex differences and to place such emphasis upon them ?
24 When he came to the centre I was already inside the operating room .
25 I mean before they came to the centre I think people felt Save The Children only did work in countries abroad .
26 Half way to the door I swivelled and , as if simply following the script of this particular hangover , strolled back to the table and came to a halt with my hands in my pockets a few feet from Davis 's chair .
27 The Chief Fire Officer advises us that the attendance times to the areas I have mentioned are regularly over the response times allowed by the standards of fire cover .
28 I said to the builder I 've got more up there than I 've got downstairs !
29 Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created .
30 It must be difficult , like I said I was lucky in the respect that I had , it never ever appealed to , to the minute I got pregnant , from the minute .
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