Example sentences of "[vb past] to the shops " in BNC.
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| 1 | The market for pilchards declined when foreign tinned sardines and pilchards came to the shops . |
| 2 | Now they walked to the shops ; Mrs Wilson painfully , with a stick , her face scarred . |
| 3 | She walked to the shops and back , sometimes walked through the back streets , once almost as far as Marcus 's flat ( but did not dare to go near it ) , avoiding the noisy King 's Road , and the embankment where Jack often walked with Alison , and as she knew , farther east where Ludens walked with Marcus . |
| 4 | Let's talk Video for a while : Real are doing a promo video , similar to the New Deal promo video that went to the shops . |
| 5 | ( 7 ) Mary and John went to the shops . |
| 6 | ( 8 ) Mary went to the shops with John . |
| 7 | A passer-by told officers he saw the 16-year-old bundled into a car as she went to the shops . |
| 8 | And you went to the shops on a , when was it again … a Monday ? this is fascinating ! |
| 9 | I was up , and I went to the shops and I came and there 's a wee boy which used to live in the flats , and he says hello Nelly . |
| 10 | Every day , when she went to the shops , she spent very little money . |
| 11 | The next day when Pete and Mum went to the shops Mum had to buy fruit and vegetables from the green-grocer . |
| 12 | First they are used to show a pause , between parts of a sentence , which makes it for example , when you start off with a subordinate clause , after I 'd cashed my Giro comma I went to the shops and bought some food , or , because of the derailment comma all the trains were running late . |
| 13 | where you went for a walk , down , went to the shops |
| 14 | Yeah she went to , she went to the shops and got one of those trolleys , she said what for ? |
| 15 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |