Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I naturally came to this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance ; it was no easy matter for me , the responsible commander , to abandon my dreams of hope and victory ! |
| 2 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 3 | I felt preternaturally over-sexed , and despite being removed from The Fat Controller 's proximate influence I still stuck to this rule . |
| 4 | I never wrote to that box number . |
| 5 | I recently wrote to all Second Division clubs asking if they wanted to retain terracing and every reply to date says yes . |
| 6 | AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare . |
| 7 | How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all . |
| 8 | This was a man who perhaps gave to all tube buskers indiscriminately , without even looking at them , for he tossed a 5P piece on to the ground as he strode past . |
| 9 | In Washington , Watson and his wife took lunch with President and Mrs Cleveland who later came to that night 's lecture . |
| 10 | She then talked to some pig experts and compiled the following pig compendium . |
| 11 | Mind you , you never went to that playschool so |
| 12 | ‘ On this occasion , the Argentine government and its people , who never consented to that act of force , reiterate their permanent will to recover by diplomatic means the exercise of its territorial sovereignty over the Malvinas , Southern Georgias and Sandwich islands and the surrounding waters , ’ the communique said . |
| 13 | These ideas were discussed with the maths and computing adviser , who Subsequently wrote to all schools suggesting that the microcomputer might be Placed in the library and that it would be advisable for schools to have their school librarians attend in-service courses on microcomputer use which this adviser was organizing . |
| 14 | ‘ We hardly spoke to each other , ’ she protested . |
| 15 | Which we still read to this day . |
| 16 | We 'll both get out of your lives and then you can get on with that idyllic existence you shared before we ever came to this island . |
| 17 | my Lord report , paragraphs seven twelve and two eleven , erm refer to the competition rules and indeed explicitly excepts that a curtailing of some competition in this area is in , in , in his view at least and the reports view , a good thing to protect solvency , protect policy holders and again we simply said to that V D S , fine , yes it goes to exemption , but it does n't get you outside the competition rules . |
| 18 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 19 | Whereas they eventually came to some agreement over the various ‘ courses ’ , they argued vehemently over Elisabeth 's insistence that the recital should both begin and close with Strauss 's Morgen . |
| 20 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 21 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 22 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |
| 23 | Well she do n't , she has n't got , I mean Lee he can , I mean he 's getting A's in French cos he does n't , he does n't , he did a tape with her did n't he the other day , they actually spoke to each other and they had a conversation |
| 24 | Whether Drake was the first person to introduce potatoes to Britain is a matter of debate , but they certainly came to this country as stores aboard the ships which sailed to South America on missions of pillage and plunder in the 16th Century . |
| 25 | It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters . |
| 26 | More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ . |
| 27 | It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 . |
| 28 | He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority . |
| 29 | It also led to some boxing lessons somewhere in Boston 's South End . |
| 30 | It also led to some staff cuts and by the spring of 1989 the leaders of the fusion programmes were anticipating that after five years of no increases to match inflation , Congress would make a twenty million dollar cut in the fusion budget . |