Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was 1.30 that Sunday night , I 'd just gone to bed feeling rather worn out after a busy week and sociable weekend . |
| 2 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd forgone breakfast because I had n't got to bed till four in the morning , lunch because I had a hangover and anyway I was late for the train , and due to the fact that it was — according to British Rail at any rate — still part of the extended Festive Period , there had been no buffet trolley on the train . |
| 4 | A nasty experience I had recently brought to mind an interesting phenomenon — how appropriate people 's names often are . |
| 5 | Mick had argued his case forcefully , and I had reluctantly agreed to camp next to them . |
| 6 | I 've just walked to school for fucking nuffink I have n't got a lesson |
| 7 | I have n't succumbed to weariness at Uncle Jim 's bedside and fallen asleep ? |
| 8 | ( I have since called to mind G. K. Chesterton 's remark in Heretics that ideas are dangerous and most dangerous to the man of no ideas : ‘ the man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller . ’ ) |
| 9 | I phoned your office on 6 April and left a message asking you or your colleagues to let me know the position but I have not heard to date . |
| 10 | As a result I have now listened to shelley 's recording over half-adozen times with increasing pleasure , the complete reverse of so many of those versions listed above . |
| 11 | The Kensington Hilton was enormous , quite the biggest place I have ever encountered to date . |
| 12 | Since 1990 she has really began to surface with work which is not for the faint hearted . |
| 13 | She 'd never resorted to violence in her life , but suddenly the thought of landing a punch square on that granite jaw was enormously appealing . |
| 14 | She 'd hardly spoken to mother all day . |
| 15 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 16 | I do n't think you , you 've , you 've got to try in a way not to shut it off too much erm and yet it , i you 've just got to sort of be able to not shut it off but sort of create different areas |
| 17 | You s you you 've indicat er you you 've sort of g given an impression that er this er this the centre h depends if you want to get a lot out of it , you 've really got to sort of work at it quite hard to er bring it up to anything together . |
| 18 | You 've only got to bag it up and put it on the side of the road . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps she was a touch stocky , but she had n't run to fat the way that most of them do . |
| 20 | Even though she had n't got to bed till the small hours , and had been feeling totally exhausted , she 'd been tossing and turning for what seemed like hours , utterly unable to sleep . |
| 21 | She had just got to incarceration in a convent for the rest of her days when they arrived at the top of the stairs . |
| 22 | It was n't only the words she had just used to Marguerite . |
| 23 | She had also brought to school an old milk-can and other artefacts . |
| 24 | In any case , she had now got to thinking of other things . |
| 25 | So it is also the diet to choose if you have sensibly taken to heart the well-established benefits of reducing fat intake . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ Carrie stammered , ‘ she 's just gone to sleep , ’ and Hepzibah nodded and touched her chin lightly and lovingly and said , ‘ I 'd best go to her then , you stay here with Albert . ’ |
| 27 | And I listen at the wall for sounds from Jancey , but it 's as quiet as a pillow , and she 's obviously gone to bed . |
| 28 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 29 | One of the problems that we 've suffered from in the past was some level of inconsistency which we 've now put to bed . |
| 30 | So we 've literally got to dove-tail this into whatever other current arrangements they have , including any other P H I they 've already got . |