Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in fact , I think in recent years what we know as the third world is the fourth , because those oil producing countries in the third world retained the status of being third and everyone got pushed to the fourth . |
| 2 | Dave , Lancashire region , on three nine seven , Chair , when I got elected to the Labour Council in Rochdale , I took a whip that I had , did what the policy was of the Rochdale D L P . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |
| 4 | That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him . |
| 5 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 6 | by the time I 'd got to the next one |
| 7 | Most of them used local girls , but I decided to go to the famous state-run Eros Centre in Hamburg , which I 've since heard has been closed down due to the AIDS scare . |
| 8 | With the success of the muscarinic experiment , I felt committed to the passive avoidance model , to the exclusion of almost everything else . |
| 9 | The door was open , and as there was no reply to our knocking , we walked in and along the corridor which I knew led to the main living quarters . |
| 10 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd try to go before I kept going to the public one 's |
| 12 | When I was young she used to come up to my mother 's for a cup o' tea ; and I liked talking to the old lady . |
| 13 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 14 | I had to go to the next yard to fetch Jonesy . |
| 15 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 16 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 17 | It was as though I had died to the old way — and yet I was alive in a new kind of way . |
| 18 | ‘ I had got to the front door when it exploded on top of me . |
| 19 | I had to escape to the nearby wilderness of mountain and ice , to live out my days among chamois and eagle , which were being hunted as avidly as I. |
| 20 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 21 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
| 22 | I mean if I 'd have if I 'd have , if I had come to the last one |
| 23 | To see The Egyptian , I had to walk to the other end of town , to the Essoldo . |
| 24 | I wanted to go to the top people . |
| 25 | I wanted to talk to the famous pianist before his concert . |
| 26 | Next the unrealized plan for a full-length novel , Confession , which got switched to the shod Notes from Underground . |
| 27 | Vitor entered her and Ashley 's hips lifted , meeting the hard rhythmic thrusts which seemed to penetrate to the very depths of her womb . |
| 28 | The monetary sector now comprised : ( a ) all recognized banks and LDTs ; ( b ) the National Girobank ; ( c ) the Trustee Savings Bank ; ( d ) the Banking Department of the Bank of England ; and ( e ) those institutions in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man which opted to adhere to the new arrangements . |
| 29 | Factors which emerged related to the dependent relationship between the father and his elderly mother , and to the long-standing unsatisfactory state of the couple 's marriage . |
| 30 | She appeared to experience a return of an old symptom in the form of fear of cancer — her father had died of a particularly virulent from of rectal cancer which had metastasised to the spinal cord and brain and she had periodically experienced intense fear that she would die similarly . |