Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 2 | McIllvanney had made the offer very dispassionately , but that businesslike approach only seemed to add to Ellen 's fury . |
| 3 | The Commission found that it could no longer find any Poles or Kaszubians who were willing to sell their land , and so began to turn to the purchase and resale of Junker estates . |
| 4 | And that was when her conscience , which because she 'd got something else to think about had stayed quiet , suddenly started to get to her about the way in which she was deceiving the man she loved . |
| 5 | Egypt was one of several Arab states that had attacked Israel and that hitherto had refused to formally recognize the state 's existence , let alone guarantee its frontiers . |
| 6 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |
| 7 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |
| 8 | I all had hoped to be able to bring before you a final draft of th the service it has not yet finally been passed by the Presbyterian Church of Wales therefore , discussions on what form and how it will be printed have not yet taken place . |
| 9 | Investigation of the feet of the fines ( property documents ) for the period revealed that in 1392/3 , 1398/9 and 1410/11 Andrew had indeed been involved in a series of transactions concerning an estate of some 200 acres , which obviously had belonged to the family for a long time . |
| 10 | Oh yes , you only had to listen to this afternoon like , with the crowds and that , obviously it means a lot to them and there 's a lot of you know , stick I suppose goes around between the two clubs , so I just want to go out there , hopefully have a good game and keep a clean sheet . |
| 11 | We rode like the wind and by ten o'clock had come to the edge of the forest of Zenda . |
| 12 | Similar results were reported by Bowers , Neilman , Satz and Altman ( 1978 ) who observed a bilateral but asymmetrical impairment on finger tapping when subjects merely had to listen to a story knowing that they would subsequently be asked to recall its contents . |
| 13 | The judge had warned the jury not to award " Mickey Mouse money " , by which he apparently intended to refer to a sum so large as to be unrealistic ( such as 1.5 million ) . |
| 14 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 15 | He intended no offence to Scott , who was the leading living architect , and only wanted to appeal to his good sense and taste , but he could not understand Street 's attack on him , whose attitude that ‘ no one is an architect until he has been in Rome ’ , is the same as our grandfathers . |
| 16 | ‘ He only wanted to go to the out-patients . |
| 17 | I only wanted to go to sleep . ’ |
| 18 | She finally agreed to go to the most expensive Chinese restaurant in town with him . |
| 19 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 20 | Caterling soon became shortened to ‘ Cat ’ and anyone adopting a particularly wicked smile was said to be ‘ grinning like a Cheshire Cat ’ . |
| 21 | It somehow got turned to Glencoe . |
| 22 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 23 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 24 | I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels . |
| 25 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 26 | It was n't shock , exactly ; the world just seemed to withdraw to a vast , echoing distance . |
| 27 | One thing just seemed to lead to another , and maybe 1 said more than I should have done . |
| 28 | No it just seemed to spring to mind . |
| 29 | As the great surge of modernism finally seemed to grind to a halt , artists and public were apparently offered two choices : either to celebrate postmodern confusion , or to turn back to older and more insular traditions . |
| 30 | It was n't until long afterwards , after an endless length of time had passed , that , cradled in Roman 's protective arms , his lips on her hair , her fingers tightly and convulsively entwined with his , she finally began to come to her senses , finally began to think straight , and to wonder what dangerous , reckless lunacy she 'd plunged , willing and headlong , into … |