Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , in the , I think it was the June , I came down to Colchester , and as soon as I got to Colchester the old adjutant nurse said oh you , going for a a B one qualification , and I had to go to Colchester to the Ordnance , it , it , it was an Ordnance workshops I suppose that was what it was . |
| 2 | I reapplied to Switchboard the next day . |
| 3 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 4 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 5 | My two weeks VR training finished , I returned to Blackpool the next day to start putting on the Ice Show at the famous Pleasure Beach — quite a change ! |
| 6 | ‘ I believed in what I was doing , ’ he told the lawyers , smarting at the implication that maybe he did n't ; ‘ Once I talked to Ollie the first or second time , man I believed . ’ |
| 7 | I went to bed the other night . |
| 8 | ‘ Never been able to drink instant since I went to America the first time . |
| 9 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 10 | When I spoke to Travis the other day I understood he 'd had a change of heart . ’ |
| 11 | I mean really look I said to Fred the other day if you knew you were depressed . |
| 12 | he looks terrible actually I said to Dave the other week I said ai n't he lost weight , look at his face , he 's so thin |
| 13 | Another thing I said to Caliban the other day — we were listening to jazz — I said , do n't you dig this ? and he said , in the garden . |
| 14 | I ask these questions because of course article five of the treaty of Rome basis a burden on this court , it does n't er create rights in itself , I think everyone agrees with this , but it certainly er imposes a duty on this court erm to apply with er community laws , purposes and principals and I 'm wondering whether erm , that , that is why I 'm looking at the possible consequences of this er the inter relationship between the , for example , the directive and article eighty five , er and bearing in mind as I said to Mr the other day , the consequences erm of er these fees |
| 15 | ‘ I said to Salman the other day ’ ( uttered at a dinner party I attended ) , ‘ When I was director of marketing … |
| 16 | Practically what that means , is when you get to March the first , you would archive January and insert April . |
| 17 | We owe to Polybius the only description of this procession — which shows his flair . |
| 18 | Tomorrow night we travel to Potosi the highest town in the world where Oxfam is working with the families of out of work miners as they try to find other ways of making a living . |
| 19 | In fact we needed to par the last to get into a tie with Dave for the playoff . |
| 20 | ‘ We listened to Ministry the other day , ’ nods Jebb , ‘ and even that was … ’ |
| 21 | We went to Scotland the next day , first by plane , then by train . |
| 22 | As we went to press the above pair and another made up of Vic Saunders and Steve Sustad were both making attempts on Ultar from different sides . |
| 23 | They , they 're tremendously loyal and as I say , when they closed Walsall Wood Co-op we went to Aldridge the next little visit . |
| 24 | We went to Southport the other week did mum tell you we went ? |
| 25 | Meanwhile , the father we spoke to fears the worst … |
| 26 | When we come to Waterloo the Great Duke 's extraordinary ability to be exactly where he was needed at the crucial moment is well described , as are his outward calm and inspiring courage . |
| 27 | When they returned to Cochinchina the French began by treating it as a restored colony and with Cedile , the French Commissioner in the South , and Moutet in Paris both anticipating , or frustrating , the results of the promised referendum there were increasing prospects that it would be retained for French economic interests in the form of a nominally autonomous government . |
| 28 | They flew to Bombay the following spring , encased a two-grand package of smack in six Tibetan Buddhas and shipped the load to England . |
| 29 | One morning when they went to school the little bunnies were there in the cage and they were all very happy . |
| 30 | But at that time Langer and Graham were bogeying and they had to birdie the last in the finish to force a playoff . |