Example sentences of "of [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you will only accept the offer of payment I made to you earlier , then the rest of the debt will be paid very shortly . ’ |
| 2 | Protector Somerset held the number of privy councillors around twenty , but under the Duke of Northumberland it rose to more than thirty . |
| 3 | the most salient and persistent attitude to work and families was the overriding sense of responsibility they felt to parents , brothers and children . |
| 4 | Yeah , but of course they went to the right |
| 5 | They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation . |
| 6 | Of course we went to a little market and naturally we bought a couple of plaited strings of garlic which will go mouldy before we 've finished them . |
| 7 | Of course we went to bed late last night as well |
| 8 | being on the railway and er , you see , er and of course I went then under his pass I suppose Mr and Mrs then and er and then of course we started to er when my parents first died we , we started to get around . |
| 9 | Against this interpretation lies the evidence that we can and do say , when appropriate , things like ‘ Of course he consented to the operation , but that does not entitle you to perform it since he is just a child ’ ( or he did not know how dangerous it is ) . |
| 10 | And of course there was a thing we w a lot of the work in the mills was in or Selkirk and of course you went to the early train in the morning , there was a train from Galashiels to and it was full of workers going to the mills in and of course if you going er to work in a mill there , your , your foreman would come , you would draw the tools , at the , the night before you went to the job , you would take them there to the train in the morning , and meet the foreman and you would go to do the job and the same to Selkirk . |
| 11 | so of course she had to in hospital so , have this on my pregnancy , you know |
| 12 | Of course it had to be ! |
| 13 | ‘ Of course it occurred to me ! |
| 14 | And of course I listened to Elmore James , and all the Delta players — Tampa Red , Robert Pete Williams and Mississippi John Hurt . |
| 15 | Being the only girl in a family of seven was bad enough but there were no other girls anywhere near my age in our local area either , though of course I went to an all-girl convent school . |
| 16 | But they still worked it that if you were working , of course I went to the Ministry of Supply |
| 17 | So then , of course I went to the Euro M P . |
| 18 | But of course I had to back off because you pulled out of it , and started fighting again . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Of course I talked to him , ’ said Andrus . |
| 20 | In an excess of enthusiasm I suggested to a GCE examiner that with the help of well-written programmes , we would soon enable nearly all students to pass O-level mathematics . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 22 | And she ended up spending , it was the best part of the day with me and she came with me to a couple of meetings I went to . |
| 23 | From the bottom of the list of nominees he climbed to the top . |
| 24 | As soon as the group became too large to be controlled by a hyper-active Healy rushing around the country to quell the first signs of dissidence it had to be smashed . |
| 25 | With Sarah Chester 's on the brink of insolvency it occurred to me he might be panicking … ’ |
| 26 | She alleged that the faculty then deviated from its regulations when it came to considering her application for exemption from some exams and also on the standard of scholarship it applied to her . |
| 27 | At the beginning of February he confessed to a whole list of ailments and obscure setbacks . |
| 28 | With the slightest of limps I walked to reception to find Kenneth waiting , and after saying goodbye to Candy , we joined José , waiting behind the wheel of the hotel limo . |
| 29 | Webb , and others , stressed the amount of work he gave to the poor . |
| 30 | Having adjusted the heat and thus satisfactorily disposed of the problem of lunch she went to the bathroom for a shower and then returned to the bedroom . |