Example sentences of "to [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next time she returned to consciousness she discovered that the whole right side of her face was numb , and that was all she registered . |
| 2 | ‘ But when you came to lunch I knew that you would be his soulmate , that the two of you shared an affinity . ’ |
| 3 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 4 | Yes , yes When I have , have been entertaining Shirley and Terry , doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday , sometimes both to help Shirley when she 's getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts is lemon meringue pie |
| 5 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 6 | Stepping out on to grass she turned and knew that she was one of the few in all history and legend who could safely look a dragon in the eye . |
| 7 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 8 | Yes , I did ’ Hauled back to reality he wondered if he had . |
| 9 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 10 | From time to time he wondered whether he had made a mistake in sleeping with her . |
| 11 | From time to time he dribbled and then wept tears of rage and humiliation . |