Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , I got to Philadelphia in the end and received my medal . |
| 2 | I got to France on the 15th May 1915 and I stayed there until the 21st February 1919 . |
| 3 | I mentioned to Rhodes after the game that the image of him spearing kamikaze-style into the stumps would adorn front pages around the world the following day , but for him there had been no theatrical ambition inherent in his actions , it was sheer practicality . |
| 4 | It was after ten o'clock when I came to consciousness of the world about me again . |
| 5 | In January 1962 I drove to Banbury in the snow , a few days in advance of my family and the general removal . |
| 6 | That is why I stooped to traffic with the Man-greedy Frost Giantess , and why I intrigued with her to drive out the Gruagach and why I helped the Gruagach to vanquish the High King and take Tara . ’ |
| 7 | I commented to Ladislav on the coincidence of eights in Czech history : 1618 when Ferdinand 's deposition led to the Thirty Years War ; 1918 when Czechoslovakia was founded ; 1938 and Munich ; 1968 and Dubček . |
| 8 | I began to cycle through the water and headed for what I thought was the bridge . |
| 9 | I yelled to Bodo above the grinding of jaws . |
| 10 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 11 | Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed . |
| 12 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 13 | I think I talked to Basil about the fact that in America everybody thought of English paintings as being what my father collected or Mr Huntington collected or Mr Frick collected all those big portraits . |
| 14 | I talked to Tagan before the battle . |
| 15 | When I talked to members of the 1964 pie committee in 1986 it was still not certain if and when this pie would appear , but appear it did as the l988 ‘ bicentenary pie ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Who told you by the way — that I talked to Nicola about the presenter 's job ? ’ |
| 17 | I talked to Sally on the telephone last night . |
| 18 | It was a very hot and sunny day in 1987 when I went to Semerwater for the open air service , and Yorkshire 's largest natural lake was a hive of activity . |
| 19 | And so I went to sea for the second time . |
| 20 | ‘ I went to Newark on the story , too , ’ said old Eddy Moulton . |
| 21 | I remember feeling a bit disappointed as I went to school on the morning of my birthday — I 'd rather have stayed home and finished the aviary . |
| 22 | And before I went to school on the Monday , drove back down the marsh and went in this forest trying to find it . |
| 23 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 24 | ‘ I went to school with the son Joe , ’ he added . |
| 25 | So I went to work to the old market place in the high street when it was an old market an open market you know where McKays is now , McKays whatever . |
| 26 | I first became interested in the Cyclades in 1961 , after I went to work on the excavations at Nea Nikomedeia , the early Neolithic village in Macedonia . |
| 27 | Well I went to work on the Saturday morning at six and we were dredging until half past twelve , then we would , then do repairs till five o'clock at night and then five o'clock at night , when the other crew had gone home , when I start to stay there then from five o'clock Saturday night till Monday morning six o'clock all the time just to keep watch on the dredger , I used to sleep mind you during part of the time and erm used to have a big old tortoise stove down the cabin and make good fire . |
| 28 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 29 | I grew up wanting not so much money as glamour , and when I left school at 15 I went to work in the department store , Bourne & Hollingsworth . |
| 30 | ‘ I was in the house until Chris arrived around ten , then I went to work in the little field behind the house where we grow our vegetables ; I was there until nearly one . |