Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] the [noun] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 2 | He had been frightened until Ivan explained to him that the sun went to bed like everyone else and would be up and shining for them in the morning . |
| 3 | But over time Mr Premadasa 's approach to the problem changed : foreign pressure and the failure of the military solution to terrorism combined to persuade him that the army needed to be discouraged from indiscriminate killing . |
| 4 | In January 1982 he came back to Stockport to speak of his mountaineering experiences ; so many wanted to hear him that the venue had to be changed from School to the Town Hall . |
| 5 | So I went to see him and the neighbour said to me , Well , I said , God it 's cold , I said , Why ai n't he got a fire ? |
| 6 | She closed the door behind her and the conversation came to Meredith as the muffled indistinguishable sound of Harriet 's voice . |
| 7 | Luke tightened his grip on her and the pitchfork clattered to the ground . |
| 8 | I picked him up and kissed him until the screaming changed to crying . |
| 9 | and so divided it that the remainder went to the husband to take up the one thousand one hundred and sixty five . |
| 10 | She could n't help it if the spider came to her . |
| 11 | And also you 'll like it because the house had to be split into two separate halves — the garden takes priority over domestic comfort . |
| 12 | The House of Lords passed an amendment to this effect , but the government overturned it when the legislation returned to the Commons . |
| 13 | He holed from five feet to force a play-off , but lost it when the pair returned to the seventeenth , by missing the green and fluffing a recovery chip halfway to the hole . |
| 14 | ‘ It made no difference to me whether the boat belonged to him . |
| 15 | In the event , the military offered rather less opposition to us than the Iraqis did to them : which was a mixed blessing . |
| 16 | On the last night the owner visited us and the conversation turned to where we live . |