Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | FitzAlan tossed the gown carelessly on to the stool , where it promptly slithered to the floor . |
| 2 | I knew that I wanted a free and independent life although I secretly subscribed to the idea of marrying a professional , sighted man . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | I realized that I had been tricked , so I then turned to some American and French correspondents . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ So you never went to the police . |
| 10 | Arriving at Agheila they discovered that all the aircraft based there left at night , so something else had to be improvised . |
| 11 | They were careful to keep the bull in the same field much of the time but sometimes they would have to move him and occasionally he would get out , so one always had to be wary . |
| 12 | By keeping it more or less behind them and to their left they could be sure of travelling north-west which was the direction they believed right but the inequalities of the ground often forced them out of their way and although they always returned to their line they had to guess what corrections to make to allow for obstacles . |
| 13 | But the officers had been given no orders to occupy these positions , so they simply returned to their lines to await instructions . |
| 14 | Once they both switched to speaking in French , the problems were solved ! |
| 15 | Its main targets were imports from Asian countries including China , Taiwan , Hong Kong and South Korea , although it also related to other developing countries . |
| 16 | Mike Nichols stated that one of his ambitions behind the movie was ‘ to stop the Los Angelesisation of America ’ , although it only added to the Los Angelesisation of American movies . |
| 17 | Jilly Fox did a rather well-informed feminist sketch comparing the chaplain 's sexist attitudes to those of the Ayatollah : it was n't very funny and the chaplain was not amused , although he wisely pretended to be . |
| 18 | That period of his life also freed him for his experiments in other kinds of theatre which , although he never reverted to them after taking on his Stuttgart responsibilities , enriched his subsequent work . |
| 19 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 20 | Told him not to let his report run to more than it absolutely had to , and on no account to make a feature piece out of it . |
| 21 | Bagehot said that Ash 's presentation of Mesmer 's belief in spiritual influences showed he was less rigorously confined by positive science than he now claimed to be . |
| 22 | We both know he made far more from the caravan business than he ever admitted to . |
| 23 | He watched the house for ten minutes or more , but saw no sign of movement so he simply went to the door and knocked . |
| 24 | ‘ So he probably came to tea and forgot it , ’ said Camille . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't get a regular game for Bath 's first team so it never occurred to me that I might be selected , ’ he revealed . |
| 26 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 27 | It was wet and cold , but it held steady , which was more than anything else seemed to . |
| 28 | Now I did not have the slightest intention of going down for a drink : all the drinking I was going to do was at the reception — if I ever got to the wedding . |
| 29 | Richard erm if I now got to the stage of saying if if you had a choice , cos I have a luxury here of six companies er most recruiters just have one job for one company . |
| 30 | Cos I nearly thought to myself shall I have a wash and set for Christmas . |