Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 2 | They all went to the local comprehensive — which I wanted to but , because I passed my 11-plus I got sent to the grammar instead . |
| 3 | Dave , Lancashire region , on three nine seven , Chair , when I got elected to the Labour Council in Rochdale , I took a whip that I had , did what the policy was of the Rochdale D L P . |
| 4 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 5 | And so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 6 | I used to be a spooler , worked a machine , but I got moved to the samples about six years ago . |
| 7 | But I got promoted to the road roller and then into the power station so |
| 8 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 9 | Not only that — they also thought , because I 'd gone to the grammar , that suddenly I was too snooty to be friends with them . |
| 10 | If I 'd gone to the rank inside , it would have been the railway police 's case . |
| 11 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 12 | And I 'd said to the And I 'd said to the dentist |
| 13 | And I 'd said to the And I 'd said to the dentist |
| 14 | He says Well you 're quite right n y I Cos I did n't think we You know I 'd said to the man already it 's quite possible I would n't be able to really take the stuff out of store for him . |
| 15 | the kitchen was piled up , I , I , Dinda took my suitcase upstairs , I 'd seen to the dog , he was very , very good in the car as you know er , I took my suitcase , I could n't get through the bedroom door , the bed clothes on the floor where it 's , where we 've had a sudden hot spell , he had n't folded them up |
| 16 | That night I watched television and did some paperwork , amending the maps to include the newly named Black Destroyer Hill , writing a brief description of what I 'd done to the rabbits and logging both the effects of the bombs that I 'd used and the manufacture of the latest batch . |
| 17 | But undeterred by background or family opinion , I 'd written to the BBC to let them know of my ambitions to be a broadcaster — and was dismissed without benefit of an interview . |
| 18 | ‘ A while ago I said I 'd listened to a thousand , but the figure 's probably closer now to 2000 , ’ says Jim . |
| 19 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 20 | The half inch I 'd added to the 5ft 8in , somehow became attached to the 5ft 9in . |
| 21 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |
| 22 | I picked another horse , in the race before — I 'd got to the bookie 's at about half-past two , I suppose . |
| 23 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 24 | by the time I 'd got to the next one |
| 25 | It was published shortly after I 'd taken part in a time and motion study during which I 'd spoken to the man with the clip-board and asked a few pertinent questions . |
| 26 | I 'd stuck to the rules arid nothing had happened . |
| 27 | Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’ |
| 28 | I felt pierced to the heart , dejected and lonely . |
| 29 | ‘ I felt drawn to the North-East , ’ he says . |
| 30 | With the success of the muscarinic experiment , I felt committed to the passive avoidance model , to the exclusion of almost everything else . |