Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 2 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 3 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 4 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 5 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
| 6 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 7 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |
| 9 | But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops . |
| 10 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 11 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
| 12 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
| 13 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |
| 14 | I asked her , " Would you mind if I have a boyfriend ? " and she said " It depends " and I said " What if I said somebody wanted to take me to the pictures ? " and it was , " If a boy wants to take you to the pictures , he 's only alter one thing . |
| 15 | You got to send it to the address |
| 16 | She agreed to accompany me to the building society the next day so that we could withdraw Charlie 's share of the money . |
| 17 | She tried to limit herself to the most important ones ( to nod ‘ yes ’ or shake her head ‘ no ’ , to point at an object her companion had failed to see ) , to use only gestures that did not pretend to be her original expression . |
| 18 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 19 | ’ And she meant to use it to the full , though perhaps not in this wasteful way . |
| 20 | In Lethbridge v. Phillips , L , a celebrated miniature painter , lent a miniature to B who wished to show it to the defendant . |
| 21 | Only last week she had told Henry ( who had lived in Maple Drive for twelve years ) that she wished to welcome him to the neighbourhood . |
| 22 | ‘ Kirsty MacColl bollocked me about that gay thing , right , because she had to defend herself to the people she knew saying , ‘ Look , Shaun ai n't like that . ’ |
| 23 | And then she put had some warm water and er she had to have it to the proper consistency and then she 'd have a a bucket of water w standing by her side with a a jug . |
| 24 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |
| 25 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 26 | She wanted to fling herself to the ground , to lie there with her body pressed against the purple glory . |
| 27 | When you wanted to shift it to the Parquet . ’ |
| 28 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 29 | Repacking the camera gear , we decided to abandon it to the elements in orange survival bags , and bracing ourselves , we retreated down the steep and slippery slope . |
| 30 | Fleischmann 's entry reports ‘ music , cooking , skiing , walking ’ — nothing very remarkable here perhaps , but they helped to bring him to the most intense period of his scientific career . |