Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was like Coalite , er when we first came here , oh yes it was , yes , but we have electric fires of course as well to , what we did because we were both out working all the time , we had electric fires and I think my husband , husband had them allied to a timeswitch and they came on before we came in , an hour or so , before we came in this room and in that room |
| 32 | ‘ I remember the very first piece I wrote I sent to a friend during the war , ’ Mr. Johnson told the Herald . |
| 33 | Yet it was only as she was getting Emily ready for school next morning that she forced herself to come to a decision . |
| 34 | At sixteen they had her married to a cousin who lived about a mile away . |
| 35 | A friend of his who was a district nurse in the area where he lived once spotted him chatting to a shopkeeper in his usual congenial fashion . |
| 36 | Why had he returned to a milieu which he must have known was a dangerous one for him ? |