Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 2 | Anyway , when I went to go I had to go to the desk give you a token , this token lifts the barrier up . |
| 3 | I mean I read according to the paper this morning young people have got to have a |
| 4 | Too late , she tried to marshal her senses , only to find they had scattered to the winds , driven by the sudden flood of desire pulsing through her body . |
| 5 | Penry Vaughan 's irritation at being saddled with an unwelcome guest was understandable enough , but surely he could have let her know he 'd spoken to the police ! |
| 6 | We sailed down the reaches of the Thames and , standing in the bows , I saw the river through the eyes of Marlow in Conrad 's Heart of Darkness , as a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea " . |
| 7 | Bemused by what was happening he moved to go to the bathroom , and was immediately grabbed by two police officers . |
| 8 | After the cab had departed he 'd returned to the body search ; a couple of rough-looking kids came sneaking up the alley for purposes unknown , but a long , low growl from the shadows sent them running . |
| 9 | However , the longevity of the Republic , the material rewards it had provided to the German people and the fact that Eastern Europeans hoped to emulate West German success in future , suggested that Bonn would act to promote , not threaten , democracy across Europe in the 1990s . |
| 10 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 11 | Nobody seemed to know what had happened to the passengers . |
| 12 | He was curious to know what had happened to the condoms , the Bob Martin 's and the vibrator . |
| 13 | In October it demanded to know what had happened to the seventy-acre industrial site and the industrial training centre promised by Faulkner and Minister of Development William Craig , and in February 1966 the DUAC lobbied the House of Commons at Westminster , led by Finbar O'Doherty , who was at this time its London representative . |
| 14 | He had set people to follow her , and everywhere she went he would eventually turn up , demanding to know what had happened to the jade . |
| 15 | The social workers and foster mothers who have worked with children abused in this way also have much to tell us , as Bea Campbell 's recent Channel 4 film demonstrated : not least that they too lived in fear whilst trying to discover what had happened to the children they were working with . |
| 16 | He would know what had happened to the software , and why . |
| 17 | He 'd know what had happened to the suit , and it seemed right that he should : this small tribute to the truth that had been exposed seemed at least her due . |
| 18 | ‘ We took her back to her Cheshire boarding school earlier this week after the half-term break but she was heartbroken as she did not know what had happened to the dog . |
| 19 | Suzanne made the public appearance after it was revealed she had complained to the Lord Chancellor about the incident at Newcastle Crown Court . |
| 20 | Actually , the Blox were furtively retrieving a windsurfer sail they had tied to the anchor chain with an injudiciously big bowline , allowing the sail to sink into some 40 feet of water . |
| 21 | The boy manservant , George Yaxlee , had said he 'd gone to the stable to meet Leon , the Italian boy , at nine on Friday night ; they had stayed together , first at the stable , then at the darts final at the Dersingham Arms until ten-thirty . |
| 22 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
| 23 | The Eladeldi had been so quick arriving she had n't even seen what had happened to the Capellan float . |
| 24 | On his first day of arrival he was told the authorities had closed EuroDisney down and when he asked why , he was told someone had reported to the authorities that a six foot mouse was walking round the day before . |
| 25 | do n't you remember you had to go to the housing office |
| 26 | ‘ I was told they had contributed to the terror almost as much as the terror was used against them , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 27 | Newman guessed they had gone to the security vault behind the counter . |
| 28 | In the witness box , Steventon-Rogers claimed he had gone to the shed unarmed and grabbed the knife from a work bench when Mr Smith became angry and attacked him . |
| 29 | Now look what had happened to the place , and I play you that because , maybe we shall never ever hear that again , because Yugoslavia can not now exist as a State . |
| 30 | He says Well you 're quite right n y I Cos I did n't think we You know I 'd said to the man already it 's quite possible I would n't be able to really take the stuff out of store for him . |