Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Told me I was jumping to conclusions and weaving fantasies and all the rest of it . |
| 2 | told me I was talking to Brian day before yesterday , second line , he says there 's loads of them doing it and it ca n't be cured |
| 3 | Erm I I was suggesting to Clare and David that wherever we do know people who do n't live in this region we could get those people to , at my expense , send us a copy of their local Thompson Directory , which is an excellent resource for getting in touch with local businesses and other organizations . |
| 4 | What did someone who was going to work on a production line need to learn French for ? |
| 5 | er Yes , I , I wanted er to find a judge for the competition ; somebody who was evacuated to Princes Risborough , but that was quite difficult . |
| 6 | Sir Gregory ( who was rumoured to be Sam Gristy 's father ) provided quantities of ale and beef , which were consumed at three sittings in Mother Russell 's front kitchen , after which there was dancing to lutes and drums . |
| 7 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |
| 8 | It was that he had had printed a leaflet , which he was taking to hotels , restaurants , shops , advertising his firm : Philip Fowler , Builder and Decorator ; that he had to get real work , soon ; that he thought he had contributed more than his share to this house , which was now in working order . |
| 9 | He was taken to Shabaka Prison in the city of Ta'iz , blindfolded and held in solitary confinement for nine months , during which he was subjected to lashings and electric shocks . |
| 10 | This was the William Joyce who mattered — the man who moved thousands to cheer his own version of the ‘ final solution ’ — not the political slapstick of Lord Haw-Haw for which he was put to death . |
| 11 | The turbine and the remainder of the mill 's machinery were removed , after which it was relegated to storage and housing pigs ! |
| 12 | The Conservative Party made net gains of 308 seats in local elections held on May 7 for over 3,800 seats on 207 local district councils in England , Scotland and Wales , only one month after the general election in which it was returned to power for a fourth term [ see pp. 38868-69 ] . |
| 13 | I was rather devastated when she told me she was moving to Crieff , as she made major contributions to the work of the Library here ; she had a long-term future , and her personality made many friends for the Library among our users . |
| 14 | Anyone like me who was sent to boarding school at an early age will identify with the personal difficulties of the young royals . |
| 15 | Martha was not the only child who lived in the highest settlement , but she was the only one who was ordered to school each day . |
| 16 | She snapped to attention and glared at Roman — he was the one who was going to sleep ; she must remain alert . |
| 17 | She told him he was jumping to conclusions . |
| 18 | When the two-week holiday finished , Richard told her he was going to Dijon in the centre of France . |
| 19 | Jacob loved Rachel for whom he was set to work for seven years , but was then tricked into marrying the older sister , Leah , first , and working a further seven years for the greatly desired Rachel . |
| 20 | An hour before it she was crying to Theresa . |
| 21 | Why Mr never came , because , he came , he started going to school , I heard this at recorders , he did n't , he did n't get up till late cos he did n't hear it , he he was driving to school and he started a little , little but he went home . |
| 22 | Needless to say , since the notion that you did not ask anyone over-probing questions would have been regarded by him as an absurdity , he wanted to know what I was going to back . |
| 23 | And that now was what I was travelling to Stuttgart determined to win . |
| 24 | That 's what I was saying to Will and |
| 25 | ‘ You overheard what I was saying to Victoria , did n't you , Doctor ? |
| 26 | That 's what I was saying to Dennis , at any rate . |
| 27 | Do you know what I was talking to Nicola |
| 28 | Detergents do n't discriminate between tasks and Niki was so good at what he was put to doing that this notion stuck , especially when his Ferrari was doing so well that victory seemed almost automatic . |
| 29 | The shopkeeper , reasonably enough , went spare and while I could easily imagine what he was saying to Melissa , I would have loved to have heard her side of the argument . |
| 30 | I do n't know what it was doing to Seve , but he looked mighty determined . |