Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the people that went before have to sort of do it , but as I say he was n't er , er |
| 2 | The venture that did most damage to Jinky 's bank balance was the ‘ Double J Bar ’ in Hamilton , a pub designed to cash in on his name , but destined like so many footballer 's pubs to become a financial nightmare . |
| 3 | These divisions were based around the old tribal territories to some extent , but absorbed many of the smaller tribes and lands that had previously belonged to tribes hostile to the Unberogens . |
| 4 | Drunk one day , driving her on his Harley , he slammed into a house that had once belonged to Jack London . |
| 5 | Twenty-odd years ago Michael Stewart owned a Facel Vega that had once belonged to Ringo Starr . |
| 6 | That round , soft face with its clear blue eyes and straight nose , those small , pretty hands , the plump frame swathed in shawls , all that had actually gone to Afghanistan 60 years ago , had taken part in the adventure that had provided the myth and the burden of Alexandra 's childhood . |
| 7 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |
| 8 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 9 | So I turned round then and said right said to Sharan I 'll drop you off at the house and I said when she 's ready I 'll walk up to the shop . |
| 10 | Before the War , he had visited Europe , worked in the kitchen of a London hotel , and had then gone to Moscow . |
| 11 | She had cleared for Antwerp , where she spent a couple of days , and had then gone to West Africa , calling at several ports before returning to Antwerp . |
| 12 | Mrs Knelle 's boy had attended a similar boarding school to the Cistercian college , and had then gone to Maynooth , a prestigious Dublin seminary for priests . |
| 13 | She had embraced Simon , patting his face and exclaiming over his bruised eye , and had then flown to Isabel , taking her in her arms and weeping over her enough , so her husband had said , to raise the level of the lake . |
| 14 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 15 | The 57-year-old was first taken ill in 1988 after coaching England at the European Championship finals , but recovered quickly to return to coaching . |
| 16 | Alyson , of Hazel Court , Middlesbrough , said she had had minor illnesses , but had always gone to school . |