Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 2 | They were that girls thought 16 was the right age to lose their virginity and that 75 per cent of them admitted to saying yes to sex when they really wanted to say no . |
| 3 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
| 4 | They made little impact and at the end of the decade some of them resorted to terrorist attacks on senior officials in an effort to destabilize the government . |
| 5 | How many of them led to changes in classroom practice ? |
| 6 | Unitarian tendencies were found amongst some Quakers in both England and Ireland in these years and the Liverpool abolitionist William Rathbone 's sympathetic treatment of them led to his disownment by the Friends and the passage of his family to Unitarianism . |
| 7 | None of them applied to me , so I deleted them all and put ‘ Ms ’ . |
| 8 | And the ultimate development in disposable packaging was the TV dinner , the domestic version of the airline dinner , bought complete with disposable tray , containers , cups and utensils , all of them made to be thrown away . |
| 9 | Leith still had n't got herself back together again when the five of them moved to the dining-room . |
| 10 | I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall . |
| 11 | Yorkshire , in common with East Anglia , has an ever-growing number of memorials , many of them dedicated to Canadian squadrons of Bomber Command . |
| 12 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
| 13 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 14 | The Scots ' commissioners in London were far from pleased with this new English church , and one of them referred to it as ‘ but a lame , Erastian presbytery ’ . |
| 15 | Lake Okeechobee is so full of nutrients , most of them traced to cow manure , that algae have all but suffocated it . |
| 16 | When we landed at Bombay ( for the story has a happy ending ) I asked to be shown the piece of tarmac pasteurised for the Pope to kiss on his recent visit , so I could bless it too ( poojahs is the Hindi word ) and give thanks for deliverance . |
| 17 | I asked to be provided with a car and an interpreter/guide . |
| 18 | But being me I could n't stand that very long , may be two or three months , and I asked to be moved . |
| 19 | When I was alone with the General I asked to be transferred . |
| 20 | A week later back in Vancouver , when Canada joined Britain in the war against Germany and Italy , I applied to the RCAF recruiting office for a commission , in view of my earlier flying experience . |
| 21 | I applied to correspondence courses for writing , I joined a music workshop , and at the same time I had to rush into a job , as I came over with just one bag and no money . ’ |
| 22 | As I have to be in London for the entire week of the General Election , I applied to Darlington Town Hall for a postal vote . |
| 23 | I doubled to the other side of the deck and joined the Sergeant Major and Brigadier Mills Roberts . |
| 24 | It was only to Pam that I admitted to feeling guilty and ashamed of the wave of relief I felt at her funeral , as though a weight had been lifted from my shoulders . |
| 25 | And I admitted to myself that I was an alcoholic and I had a problem with prescription pills , and in order to survive — in order to live — had to change that . |
| 26 | And , I admitted to myself , she would have been absolutely right . |
| 27 | No I did it to Marks ' then blamed it on Cherubs and Cherub come over and did it to Marks ' and I admitted to it , or so or |
| 28 | So I clung to the concept of ideal love for you , at the same time hoping for the even more impossibly ideal physical fulfilment and completion that would seal our closeness for ever . |
| 29 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 30 | I clung to the door , my hands fisted round the useless handle . |