Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once went to a saddler in Bungay who sold these belts ready made up . |
| 2 | ‘ If I ever go to a funeral in an out-of-the-way place , I always get pushed a discoloured glass of potheen . |
| 3 | I also went to a theatre or two in the West End on quiet nights . |
| 4 | At Debenham there was a lot of extra curricular activities on offer like inter house competitions , Sports days , I took part in quite a few activities like Sports days , assemblies and some of the interhouse competitions like design a Christmas card and basket ball , I also went to a club on Friday lunch times . |
| 5 | I now turn to a consideration of some implications of the cognitive neuropsychology of face recognition for phenomenology — an approach to the mind and mental phenomena that gives prominence to introspectible ‘ phenomena ’ understood as acts of consciousness and their immediate objects . |
| 6 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |
| 7 | The main and very unsatisfying conclusion that I have reached may he expressed in the title I sometimes give to a lecture on the subject : " There 's something damn funny about the stratigraphical record " . |
| 8 | ‘ I initially agreed to a meeting but that decision has now been put on hold , ’ he explained . |
| 9 | The debt played on my mind as I half listened to a soprano trying to sing Lulu 's ‘ Shout ’ . |
| 10 | After just a few hours sleep , I half awoke to a bang on the window . |
| 11 | I recently contributed to a book which was misnamed by its editors Redundant Spaces ( Anderson et al. , |
| 12 | ‘ My last defeat was in New York against Glenwood Brown in 1989 but , instead of putting me off going to a guy 's home town , it seemed to encourage me , ’ said Boucher . |
| 13 | She finally came to a halt at the very far end of the garden . |
| 14 | But she was a cheery old sort , if a shade old-fashioned ( ‘ I am old enough to be your mother , Prime Minister' had gone down rather well ) , and when she finally shuddered to a halt , having gone through at least two red lights , she was rewarded with much applause . |
| 15 | ‘ No , shit , you just get to a point in your life where you want to make sure that everything is going to be OK . |
| 16 | Did n't you just agree to a truce ? |
| 17 | I felt relieved in the same huge way as when you 've been desperate to pee and you finally get to a loo … |
| 18 | Rose 's mouth dropped open and she just managed to a catch a string of saliva on the back of her wrist before anybody noticed . |
| 19 | What could she possibly say to a beauty with thick hair down to her waist , wearing bright clothes , and gold bracelets up her arm ? |
| 20 | ‘ Lovely ! ’ she would say as she cooked and ate it , with the little pursing of her lips and narrowing of her grey eyes which was the nearest she ever came to a smile or a laugh . |
| 21 | ‘ Do n't you ever listen to a word I say to you ? ’ he bit out thickly . |
| 22 | You even talk to a woman as if she were a child . |
| 23 | She then goes to a cat country far away which is taken over by bandits . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ said Henrietta , smiling meaninglessly , confirming Liz 's view that she never listened to a word that Liz said to her . |
| 25 | And then there are the things you get when you actually go to a destination . |
| 26 | The delicious things in the foil-covered dishes had long gone , we were getting drunk nightly on sweet German wine and tins of creamed rice were starting to look attractive , when we finally awoke to a day of brilliant sunshine . |
| 27 | Last week we mistakenly referred to a contributor , Dafydd Elis Thomas , as a Plaid Cymru MP . |
| 28 | If we ever got to a siege economy he , Jim , dreaded the effect on our democracy . |
| 29 | WE now come to a consideration of the percussion group ( formerly known as ‘ the kitchen ’ ) , chief among which stand the Timpani ( or kettledrums ) . |
| 30 | We now come to a question that causes a great deal of difficulty , particularly to foreign learners ( who can not simply dismiss it as an academic question ) : how can one select the correct syllable or syllables to stress in an English word ? |