Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So round I went to Daddy 's flat . ’ |
| 2 | I mean I said to Shaun on a Friday night we 'd better decide this , otherwise there 's no point in us coming through tomorrow mate , we might as well stay at home and go to the football or something |
| 3 | I mean I said to Scott |
| 4 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 5 | I mean I spoke to Ken before he started doing this exercise , and I 'm worried |
| 6 | No I went , as I say I went to bed . |
| 7 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 8 | Place himself wrote to Harriet Martineau that he had been assured by physicians that delayed marriages were a physical danger to women . |
| 9 | Also the ‘ I 'll be back ’ WAV file that you say you assigned to Windows events and the internal speaker driver , are not supplied with Windows 3.1 . |
| 10 | as I say we went to bed her and I |
| 11 | Some histories say he returned to England during the Great War , but most comment that he spent the war years in Australia and New Zealand before returning to Surrey in 1919 . |
| 12 | How did he go to pieces , when you say he went to pieces ? |
| 13 | So I mean you had to sort of come up , and grab a breath , and go under the water and try and swim away from it . |
| 14 | And so I mean you had to sort of go up several flights of stairs and you walked in and it , it looked lovely . |
| 15 | You 'd got the toilet there and behind the door , I mean you had to sort of squeeze yourself and shut the door , and behind the door was a shower . |
| 16 | I mean really look I said to Fred the other day if you knew you were depressed . |
| 17 | ‘ Look what happened to Joy Prentice . ’ |
| 18 | Look what happened to Wade Dooley last year . |
| 19 | ‘ Look what happened to God after that Time cover — fundamentalism began sweeping the world . |
| 20 | Look what happened to Flaubert : a century after his death Sartre , like some brawny , desperate lifeguard , spent ten years beating on his chest and blowing into his mouth ; ten years trying to yank him back to consciousness , just so that he could sit him up on the sands and tell him exactly what he thought of him . |
| 21 | Well on Sundays I mean we went to church in the |
| 22 | The Trimdon seven , incidentally , are joined by Hartlepool 's Keith Nobbs who like them went to Sedgefield Comp but is definitely a foreigner . |
| 23 | ‘ I know nothing came to court , ’ said Theodora . |
| 24 | I remember I said to Billy something like , ‘ I thought she 'd never go . |
| 25 | he ferreted it out , but I , you know I said to Mike well if er , if he 's only chewing the paper |
| 26 | totally ridiculous , erm so you know I said to Keith , well you know alright York races , better put that in and a you know I started getting |
| 27 | ‘ I know she came to Oxford and I 'm certain in my own mind that she came to Breakspear College . |
| 28 | You know you said to dad but |
| 29 | As you know we went to Denmark & got to know & especially our niece , , again . |
| 30 | I remember we came to blows over the Queen Mother thing . |