Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 2 | to the Council Education Offices to see what school I could get him in , you see I wanted a good school for him because he was showing the ability , you know , er , and er eventually I went to Harlow Grammar school that 's what it was called then |
| 3 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 4 | Mrs Field was such a grand lady , and eventually I moved to Lartington to become her lady 's maid . |
| 5 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
| 6 | Only I spoke to Dass about the curtains , Mr Feather . " |
| 7 | So I came to Walsall again , when I left Walsall I never wanted to , to come back to Walsall er because of two reasons . |
| 8 | So I went to Smiths , got this map |
| 9 | So I went to Britain . |
| 10 | So I went to New York — and there were no jobs there , either , not unless you had a college degree or you could type a million billion words a minute . |
| 11 | So I went to Tesco 's first thing straight back from the nursery and guess what I forgot to do ? |
| 12 | The woman at the villa , Barbara Coleman , would n't tell me where it was and so I went to Durance and he was equally determined about it . |
| 13 | So I went to Ladbrokes and picked two rank outsiders and put some money on them and left . |
| 14 | So I went to Yorkshire , on the farm . |
| 15 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 16 | so I went to Johnstown yesterday afternoon . |
| 17 | and er and so I said to Paul , Ann 'll get plenty conversation today . |
| 18 | So I said to Paul , well you 've done well getting windows open . |
| 19 | So I said to Rob |
| 20 | I thought going out tomorrow , so I said to Bob , |
| 21 | and erm , he said oh we 'll have something to eat so I said to Chris they had this great big bowl of chicken tikka , ooh |
| 22 | So I said to Mick I 'm sure that 's illegal . |
| 23 | so I 've put that away , I , it ai n't even in my account , Alan 's got that and I said to Alan if I pass this test I shall buy a banger , five hundred quid with this tax money and then put the odd to insurance , if I do n't I 'll leave it where it is , because I , I mean little one will want a holiday and that anyway so I 've kept it for that , but that 's what I intend to do , so I said to Alan if I get a little banger just enough to get me to Tettering and back I was gon na go tech , to do some courses |
| 24 | So I said to Robert Mapplethorpe , I do n't call that art , having your self portrait done with a whip stuck up your … ’ |
| 25 | and I was er , I try and switch the machine on it would n't come on , I thought what 's going on here , so I said to Sue , ca n't switch the machine on Sue what 's going on here ? , anyway , apparently the power supply to the machine was a bit dicky , the |
| 26 | So I said to Geoff I 'll get it up the village shop . |
| 27 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 28 | So I said to June , the only thing what flashed through my mind , not the fact about having the engine out or something like that but what flashed through my mind was whether it was for Beck and Pollitzers at all . |
| 29 | So I said to Brian , right leave it . |
| 30 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |