Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 2 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 3 | Once the connection is made and established it is referred to as an S-R bond . |
| 4 | Constance heard Louise on the telephone and knew she was talking to Nora . |
| 5 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
| 6 | ‘ The policeman saw the car coming straight towards him , and thought he was going to be hit , and had to pull in to the side of the road . |
| 7 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 8 | She pushed her mug away from her and said she was going to bed . |
| 9 | They use a lot yeah the ch I put it in my I mean , I said yesterday to him , we 've got the decorators in and then co they turned round and said he is meant to be a businessman and they said he can not believe they 've never met tha such a penny pinching guy |
| 10 | At first Athelstan thought it was addressed to a woman but realised it was written to a young man . |
| 11 | THE HOME OFFICE yesterday released 25 more Kurds seeking political asylum in Britain from detention centres but denied it was bowing to pressure after the death of a detainee who set fire to himself last week . |