Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I crept forward to look at Granny . |
| 2 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 3 | The following year , in May , I sneaked off to audition for Tiller without my mother 's knowledge . |
| 4 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 5 | This week I rang up to inquire about train times and was assisted by the most delightful man I have encountered in two decades of dealing with BR . |
| 6 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 7 | I knew I should go back to the stockade now , but an idea came to me and I sat down to wait for darkness . |
| 8 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 9 | She tried not to think about Finn because then she felt weak and hopeless . |
| 10 | Maggie had been amazed at her own fury , rocked by the power of Fenna within her , breaking through the cool disdain she tried always to preserve in front of this loathsome woman . |
| 11 | Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour . |
| 12 | She decided not to go to communion . |
| 13 | However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 14 | She crossed over to sit beside Dot . |
| 15 | There was a man , he said , who knew how to deal with jockey 's injuries . |
| 16 | Mrs Tholen , who went on to specialise in theatre work , has proved herself to be the gardener of the family despite her husband 's success with carnations carefully nurturing the acre of gardens in which their four-bedroomed detached home is set . |
| 17 | She went upstairs to change after luncheon and then took herself to the chair by her bedroom hearth , and said she should want nothing further , all afternoon . |
| 18 | Brushing the unruly wet tendrils of hair from her cheeks , she went over to stand in front of it , holding out her hands to the heat . |
| 19 | Ondine , the sea nymph ( Margot Fonteyn ) so used her feet that she appeared always to float through water . |
| 20 | You had only to look at holiday romances , she told herself , or shipboard affairs , to know that unfamiliar surroundings and propinquity acted as a hothouse , a forcing ground for unrealistic situations . |
| 21 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |
| 22 | She refused even to look at Ace , although her body clamoured with a painful intensity as soon as he came to stand next to her . |
| 23 | But , miraculously , everything seemed suddenly to fit into place and we managed to put all the horror behind us and start again . |
| 24 | Through the little side gate , across the road , and we turned left to walk into Orange . |
| 25 | On the fifth we settled down to wait on deck . |
| 26 | ‘ We decided not to go into debt to take part but it was still hard just to be a spectator , ’ said Steve . |
| 27 | We went on to look at ligand gated channels , and in particular three different classes , acetylcholine gated , glycine gated , G A B A gated . |
| 28 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 29 | Some of the sailors and I managed to get a boat into the water , and we rowed away to look for land . |
| 30 | At half-past eleven the house was so quiet they decided not to wait until midnight . |