Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] to [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rarely talk to my parents these days , or visit the family home . |
| 2 | Then I slowly got to my feet and they all started laughing happily as if I was n't dead after all . |
| 3 | ‘ I always trust to my instincts , ’ he began , his voice still soft . |
| 4 | I now refer to our objections . |
| 5 | As I warily got to my feet I felt a compulsion to retrace my steps in the direction of Jock 's trench . |
| 6 | ‘ Aoew , ’ she replied , ‘ I never listen to them things ! ’ |
| 7 | His doctrinal position is further and usefully clarified in fifteen sermons , which presumably belong to his years as abbot and bishop . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it 's sad , especially here , to see the fields which once belonged to my ancestors . ’ |
| 9 | Knuth ( 1973 , p483 ) explains that we ‘ can save memory space at the expense of running time if we use a linked list for each node vector , since most of the entries tend to be empty ’ , which certainly applies to our lists of words . |
| 10 | The replacement of national currencies with a single European currency would deprive these countries ' respective monetary authorities of the right to issue money and with it the revenues which currently accrue to their governments through monetary creation while they would not be able to offset this loss through the use of other taxes . |
| 11 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 12 | She slowly got to her feet , her eyes wide with fear . |
| 13 | Staggering slightly , she eventually lurched to her feet . |
| 14 | ‘ I know what you mean , doctor , and no ; no , he has n't , but- ’ She suddenly sprang to her feet and was standing rigid . |
| 15 | She suddenly rose to her feet , pushing her chair back and reaching for her bag . |
| 16 | ‘ You do get the believers and the buffs , the little sects who just stick to their beliefs and wo n't listen to anything else . |
| 17 | Donna said nothing ; she just dropped to her knees , the .38 still gripped in her fist , face bruised , her lip bleeding . |
| 18 | She quickly dropped to her knees , and popped it into her mouth before he could run away . |
| 19 | And then , as her dazed mind finally absorbed the fact that it really was Ross , and not a figment of her overheated imagination , she quickly jumped to her feet and ran swiftly across the floor towards him . |
| 20 | Do you always speak to your betters in such a fashion ? |
| 21 | Lindsey smiled as she also rose to her feet . |
| 22 | In the village of Debenham there was an old bee-keeper who regularly talked to his bees and claimed to be able to interpret their response by the pitch of their buzzing . |
| 23 | She immediately sprang to her feet and shouted at the top of her voice : ‘ HEY HAL . |
| 24 | Will you please listen to my suggestions , or at least have him meet me ? ’ |
| 25 | Not there 's only about , there 's only , so what , who else comes to our parties , er normally , our little ones ? |
| 26 | Before she actually rose to her feet , Jonadab spoke again . |
| 27 | She hurriedly got to her feet . |
| 28 | You could easily find something better suited to your talents — become a Member of Parliament , or something . |
| 29 | Regardless of the deftness we normally bring to our relationships , when conflict surfaces its power to overwhelm us can be deeply perplexing . |
| 30 | One now turns to his indexes with a sense of delicious anticipation , and here there is no disappointment . |