Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 2 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 3 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 5 | He 'd got it to an art — |
| 6 | He 'd invited me to a supper dance after the show on Christmas Eve . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 8 | He was confident he 'd brought her to the stage where he could lay her . |
| 9 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 10 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 11 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 12 | In fact , he was the man who 'd escorted her to the door to mark the end of her first visit . |
| 13 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 14 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 15 | He 'd taken her to a pub — The Crumpled Horn — before walking to the park . |
| 16 | Penry was tactful enough to leave her to her own devices once he 'd directed her to a chemist . |
| 17 | He 'd mutilated her to the point of death but — being a Buddhist — he had n't killed her . |
| 18 | He told her to drive to him immediately , and when she arrived treated her to a breakfast of kippers and Chablis . |
| 19 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 20 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 21 | G. had traced it to an ice cream works employing about six men . |
| 22 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 23 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 24 | She had n't expected to be greeted with open arms , but the reception she 'd actually received had shaken her to the core . |
| 25 | 780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
| 26 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 27 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 28 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 29 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 30 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |