Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 2 | FitzAlan tossed the gown carelessly on to the stool , where it promptly slithered to the floor . |
| 3 | When all else failed , or it simply appealed to her a woman could always turn to the ranks for employment . |
| 4 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 5 | No , I do n't want to do that I just said to her , I said you know , you can sort of erm ask Brenda she said I 'm doing that I 'm not on christmas day , would you ? |
| 6 | The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse . |
| 7 | Then there was this thing that I constantly talked to the press . |
| 8 | I think perhaps that I actually needed to be able to think the worst of you , however personally unpalatable that worst was to me , as some sort of a defence , so that I could despise you even if it meant despising myself as well . |
| 9 | Not that I ever wanted to . |
| 10 | Another poem that I have dated in the typescript ‘ December , 1957 , Plaza de Anaya , Salamanca ’ , is one I was able to write for myself , and that I never showed to Dana . |
| 11 | ‘ I pushed the pram to the top of the street I was afraid they were following me but when I looked round there was nobody there so I just ran to my mum 's . ’ |
| 12 | I realized that I had been tricked , so I then turned to some American and French correspondents . |
| 13 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 14 | Clarissa pointed out that nobody else seemed to be making a fuss . |
| 15 | Although she always wanted to be a writer , the theatre has claimed a lot of her energy ( she has been nominated for an Emmy and a Tony award ) . |
| 16 | Although you always came to me brimming with news of where you had been and what you had done , I do not think you told me everything . |
| 17 | First , she contended that her husband put her under undue pressure to sign and that she finally succumbed to the pressure . |
| 18 | It was not until the next to last day of the visit that she finally formulated to herself her secret desire , which was to see Montmartre at night . |
| 19 | Like the other women , Barbara Lipscombe was asked if she had ‘ particular ways of doing things ’ that she regularly kept to in housework : |
| 20 | It was shortly after this that her mother approached her and in a voice that she rarely used to her , she said , ‘ Agnes , I … |
| 21 | She could remember his amazement on learning what she did to earn her living ; there had even been a hint of surprise that she actually needed to . |
| 22 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |
| 23 | She was pipped by reluctant newcomer Jane Lester of Basildon Savacentre who was so doubtful of her abilities that she virtually had to be carried up to the oche . |
| 24 | We knew she would n't go near the road because she was so frightened of people and movement that she always stuck to the security and space of the golf course . |
| 25 | That she now belonged to the man lying with her . |
| 26 | My mother 's hotel may have elevated her from the raw stuff of commerce — so much so that she now subscribed to Country Living and other unspecialist periodicals — but the caravan enclosure was decaying anew . |
| 27 | There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway . |
| 28 | She spoke — more slowly than she had spoken before — and Fatima listened with a concentrated intensity that she never lent to Marie Claire 's requests and detailed instructions . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Henrietta , smiling meaninglessly , confirming Liz 's view that she never listened to a word that Liz said to her . |
| 30 | He thrust his face close to hers suddenly and made her jump , pulling her round so that she was close and more aware than she ever wanted to be again of his dominant masculinity . |