Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only I 'd listened to the old folk telling their stories . ’ |
| 2 | So I had to go to the , like the job centre and they offered me this , which I did n't really fancy at the time . |
| 3 | I think so I said said to the bloke before |
| 4 | So I 'd to go to the washing racks for fourpence a day . |
| 5 | So I happened to say to the footman , I say : |
| 6 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 7 | Alone together they fell to tender embraces that rapidly shifted up a gear to heavy petting , and before long they had retired to the girl 's bedroom for more adventurous fun and games . |
| 8 | Perhaps they had adjusted to the sanitised neutralism of a Stockholm commune , but it seemed an odd life for men who had chosen to become soldiers . |
| 9 | And so they went to report to the , to the police but and th I mean they did n't believe them , they thought it was just like birds . |
| 10 | If the house was n't locked , perhaps he 'd gone to the pub to buy his horrible cigarettes or another bottle of Scotch to drown his sorrows — whatever , she did n't think he would have gone far . |
| 11 | Obviously he had come to the heart of what he wanted to say . |
| 12 | So he 'd rushed to the field , catching a sun-dazed pony , scrambling onto the broad back , hair and scurf whitening the new trousers , cantering over the paddocks and clattering into the yard where Peter and Andrew were almost ready . |
| 13 | So what did happen to the King ? ’ |
| 14 | She had been angry at first , then disbelieving , but finally she had gone to the aerodrome to see the padre , begging him for news of Rob . |
| 15 | It was curious how soon you grew used to the presence of another person in your home . |
| 16 | It is not known whether Lady Tynte investigated just what had happened to the bird 's genitalia but subsequent studies of female pheasants showing similar transvestite tendencies revealed that only sexual differences developing at or after puberty were affected and that the reproductive organs themselves remained unaltered ( Yarrell , 1827 ) . |
| 17 | But I totally disagree with what she said in that erm yesterday I sat glued to the television most of the day , really to keep myself up to date on what was going on , erm I also have a baby but I managed to keep him occupied as well as take him out for a walk and give him his lunch and what have you . |
| 18 | But , at fourteen , my job was to er I had to fetch the coal and the sticks , to light the er stove that held the irons , and er they they were er d I I Like I had to go to the coalhouse which was down fourteen steps , the steps were wooden ones , outside the upper floor , where we worked . |
| 19 | ‘ Go to hell ! ’ she burst out hoarsely and started to fight in deadly earnest , slapping and scratching at him , little cries of panic coming from the back of her throat as her mind flashed back into full operation and she realised with sick fear just how close she had come to the edge . |
| 20 | Her anxiety about the visit disappeared once she became acclimatized to the appaling conditions confronting her . |
| 21 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 22 | If ever he did go to the bazaar he would expect the shopkeepers to stand up when he entered … |
| 23 | A second later she had fallen to the ground , her hair covering her eyes so that she had only a vague impression of the man bending over her . |
| 24 | Traditionally they had looked to the Reich to trade their lumber , wheat , furs and amber , and they had every intention of continuing to do so in order to spite the Polish state . |
| 25 | A couple of months later he did come to the Hammersmith Odeon with Bernie and me to see them play I could seethe relief on his face when he realised they really were a band . |
| 26 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 27 | It was only when I rang her up to chase up what had happened to the she says , oh dear I 've sent it to the wrong one . |
| 28 | Now I had graduated to the Birmingham-rug and Dufy-print circuit , but I wondered what I had sacrificed to do it . |
| 29 | Until now she had clung to the belief that , despite her phone call , Dana was innocent of taking Garry from his wife . |
| 30 | The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year . |