Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 His angry words brought her back to reality , but did nothing to take away her sense of grievance .
2 As well as adding to the old part of the story , the continuators brought it up to date till the death of Geoffrey le Bel , occasionally slipping into detailed narrative of events : there is a long and useful excursus on the politics of 1118 .
3 Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her .
4 Three putts took him back to par , continuing the story of his first round in which he hit 16 greens in regulation but missed seven putts inside 8ft .
5 He was rushed to Inverness Infirmary where doctors saved him and dedicated physiotherapists nursed him back to health .
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