Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Methodism succeeded locally it tended to be of the brand , Lady Huntingdon 's , which appealed most to middling townsfolk . |
| 2 | Mr Usta , aged 34 , who lives with his wife , mother and three daughters in a shack in an Istanbul shanty town , described how he came to London last year , attracted by a newspaper advertisement offering money to kidney donors . |
| 3 | Despite his overall fatigue and discomfort , Mark wore it proudly and explained and demonstrated how it worked to everyone involved in his care . |
| 4 | Despite his overall fatigue and discomfort , Mark wore it proudly and explained and demonstrated how it worked to everyone involved in his care . |
| 5 | When he got outside he turned to the right , up to the mountain road leading to his home . |
| 6 | When we got outside I said to Shanti , ‘ That nice man has said you can be our little girl for ever . ’ |
| 7 | When I eventually got downstairs she said to my Dad , ‘ Tell him his breakfast 's in the oven if he wants it . ’ |
| 8 | When he came in he said to Sien , ‘ It is still the same as last year . ’ |
| 9 | But as soon as the combine came in I had to be very careful with them . |
| 10 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 11 | ran away from it you see and then when he came back he came to us and he growled a few times at it , so , but erm , backed off you know |
| 12 | In the talk , first Mr Preshous ( Principal of the Bishop 's Castle ommunity College ) recalled how they came to Bishop 's Castle in 1973 when the Borough was celebrating Charter Year marking the 400th anniversary of the granting of the Borough Charter . |
| 13 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 14 | As it turned out it proved to be one of my better decisions ! |
| 15 | One man who would sacrifice all his prize money for the year just to win the Wimbledon Singles Crown that has eluded him is Ivan Lendl , and the tension clearly showed when he lost to the Canadian Grant Connell in windy , dark , and damp conditions in the Stella Artois Championship at Queen 's Club . |
| 16 | When war broke out he returned to England and was commissioned in the Irish Guards . |
| 17 | ‘ I decided then I had to be fit and hungry when I next played . |
| 18 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 19 | Most important of all , she thought , as she picked over the problems of his character , as the days went on he seemed to be so much steadier , so much easier in his own skin . |
| 20 | it is radical because at the time when I took over we needed to be radical . |
| 21 | When the sound died away he turned to me quickly . |
| 22 | Nor was she surprised when Silas lapsed into silence during the remainder of the journey , and when they reached home she hastened to her room , where tears of frustration rolled down her cheeks . |
| 23 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 24 | When she went home she spoke to her mother about it , and she told Anne not to worry . |
| 25 | He laughed whenever she spoke to him and clung to Dotty Blundell for protection , whirling her away on his arm the moment rehearsals were over . |
| 26 | again , so I thought well he took to me I 'm the one that 's going to get me through , not them |
| 27 | God , but she knew how he liked to be pleasured , taking care not to stale his nerves with repetition , but cajoling his juice into cells already brimming , until he was ready to come in blood , and be murdered by her work , willingly . |
| 28 | Everybody knew when they went to her place they would always find tons to eat . |
| 29 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 30 | Don Peters knew when he went to the podium that the odds were stacked heavily against him gaining the support of Nate Cocello and the committee . |