Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 2 | Claudia Yeo closed her eyes and forced herself to speak to the empty space behind the desk . |
| 3 | For friendship 's sake , Maud tried to keep off political subjects and urged him to stick to his poems and visions . |
| 4 | Plummer bellowed , watching gloomily as a body punch brought down his fighter 's guard and a thunderous uppercut lifted him off his feet and sent him crashing to the canvas . |
| 5 | I could have recorded the mysterious Mr Archer 's phone calls and had them directed to the office while I was there . |
| 6 | And often , as I sat writing such poems that helped me cling to the last shreds of my many identities , I would suddenly sense that you were indeed approaching . |
| 7 | And so he calmed his guests and persuaded them to return to their rooms . |
| 8 | Durkheim opened the floodgates and offered what amounted to a radically new way of making sense of social institutions and their inter-relations . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 10 | The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings . |
| 11 | One of the authors ( i ) assessed the biopsy specimens and graded them according to the severity of histological inflammation ( Jarvis criteria ) and ( ii ) classified Barrett 's mucosa according to the type of metaplasia — intestinal , junctional , or fundic . |