Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unitarian tendencies were found amongst some Quakers in both England and Ireland in these years and the Liverpool abolitionist William Rathbone 's sympathetic treatment of them led to his disownment by the Friends and the passage of his family to Unitarianism . |
| 2 | None of them applied to me , so I deleted them all and put ‘ Ms ’ . |
| 3 | It was only when everyone rose to their feet , shook hands and made a beeline for the cooking tent — where , it emerged , Balvinder Singh had been for the last half-hour — that I realized that the ceremony was over . |
| 4 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 5 | Everyone sank to their knees . |
| 6 | During his reign there were no murders , no wars , no robberies , and gold rings lay untouched in the open , so that everyone referred to his age as the Frótha-frith , the ‘ peace of Fróthi ’ . |
| 7 | Everyone contributed to their building . |
| 8 | The Scots ' commissioners in London were far from pleased with this new English church , and one of them referred to it as ‘ but a lame , Erastian presbytery ’ . |
| 9 | And I admitted to myself that I was an alcoholic and I had a problem with prescription pills , and in order to survive — in order to live — had to change that . |
| 10 | And , I admitted to myself , she would have been absolutely right . |
| 11 | No I did it to Marks ' then blamed it on Cherubs and Cherub come over and did it to Marks ' and I admitted to it , or so or |
| 12 | I clung to her and tried to keep my nails from digging into her arm . |
| 13 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 14 | The next time I reached a lamp-post I clung to it . |
| 15 | Erm the point I made to them , that everybody round that table , if they did have a problem that they thought was urgent , they should get on the phone to the , you know , Steve and |
| 16 | the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all . |
| 17 | My duty was to honour the promise I made to him ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The offer I made to him to buy his shares before all this unsavoury business began does not still stand . |
| 19 | ‘ If you will only accept the offer of payment I made to you earlier , then the rest of the debt will be paid very shortly . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And she has made the same promise to me that I made to my mum and dad . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ What are you grinning at , Cambridge ? ’ he demanded — he 'd given me the nickname after some reference I made to my own past ; it was an affectionate pan of coals for my head — ‘ It 's perfectly true . |
| 22 | I should like to conclude by making to you , our shareholders , the three crucial points I made to our staff on assuming the role of Group Chief Executive . |
| 23 | With pride I announced to himself that The Royal Bank of Scotland had triumphed . |
| 24 | Dad was still standing by the coffin and I whispered to him , ‘ Dad , can I have another look at my Granny ? ’ |
| 25 | Late one night I whispered to him that I was worried that the Yanks were taxing him too hard , that his lucid arguments and eloquence were being weakened by constant niggling at everything he said . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't worry , sir , ’ I whispered to him . |
| 27 | As I watched her before she became aware of me , I whispered to myself , Everything begins here . |
| 28 | ‘ One of them 's 's corridor , ’ I whispered to myself , and looked carefully at them both . |
| 29 | Recently during a radio interview about my play Mr and Mrs Nobody , I realised to my horror that the names of its two stars , Judi Dench and Michael Williams , had totally left my head . |
| 30 | That 's the keep er the actual , the actual master tape for that one I , I lent to somebody and I have n't got it back , I ca n't remember where it is |