Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [noun] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped in town only to ask about Miss Havisham . |
| 2 | It is of course easier said than done for someone suffering from anorexia simply to follow this recovery plan . |
| 3 | ‘ I went to Dovecote yesterday to see Maisie , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I dash to Tescos expressly to buy some washing power , spend £40 and 45 minutes in there and forget the Radion . |
| 5 | A point which sprang to mind here to complicate the issue surrounds cheese which is made in several places , including the one after which it takes its name . |
| 6 | Ariel feels the old woman flapping feebly with her legs , and though she holds on , Sycorax slides off her back and on to the ground ; she cries to Ariel again to run , run as hard as she can , and from the ground she begins to shriek , till the guard himself cries out , and drops on one knee to take aim in the pitch dark . |
| 7 | THE Belfast Telegraph today obtained a copy of a letter from US President Bill Clinton to a former Congressman who arrives in Ireland tomorrow to campaign for a peace envoy to be sent to the province . |
| 8 | She wanted to be out of his sight very quickly and she leaned on Marguerite willingly to get up the stairs as fast as possible . |
| 9 | If you are hoping to start a family soon and have already investigated the financial aspects , you will know that statutory maternity pay is determined by your length of service and requires you to earn on average enough to pay Class One National Insurance Contributions . |
| 10 | An even bigger treat happened during the war when we went to Darlington again to see Big Bill Campbell and his Rocky Mountain Rhythm at the Hippodrome Theatre . |
| 11 | Cos we went over Sunday just to have a look . |
| 12 | No one remained with strength enough to fetch a crowbar and lever open the flimsy chapel door — except perhaps the Mason , who was too bent on escaping the touch of the contaminated crowd . |
| 13 | First , there seems at present less to complain about in most of our primary schools than in secondary or tertiary education . |
| 14 | FIVE years on , they gathered in Enniskillen yesterday to remember one of the IRA 's most hideous atrocities the Remembrance Sunday bombing . |
| 15 | He arrived in Karaman only to hear of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's death ; but , having met Molla Fenari , he went off with him to Egypt to study under Shaykh Akmal al-Din . |
| 16 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 17 | Angel explained that she would be staying at her mother 's while he went to Brazil alone to see if the country was suitable . |
| 18 | It speaks of intention permanently to deprive . |
| 19 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |