Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 2 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 3 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 6 | Anyway , after I 'd introduced her to a few different locations and got her over the initial newness of the experience , she seemed perfectly willing to come to me . |
| 7 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 8 | I did make it to the LSE eventually and , a dozen love affairs and three broken engagements later , into marriage . |
| 9 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 10 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 11 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 12 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 13 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |
| 14 | Then I had to take him to a big detached house divided into flats . |
| 15 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
| 16 | But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops . |
| 17 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 18 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
| 19 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 20 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
| 21 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
| 22 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |
| 23 | You got to send it to the address |
| 24 | She agreed to accompany me to the building society the next day so that we could withdraw Charlie 's share of the money . |
| 25 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 26 | He told her to drive to him immediately , and when she arrived treated her to a breakfast of kippers and Chablis . |
| 27 | Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front . |
| 28 | ’ And she meant to use it to the full , though perhaps not in this wasteful way . |
| 29 | Only last week she had told Henry ( who had lived in Maple Drive for twelve years ) that she wished to welcome him to the neighbourhood . |
| 30 | She had brought them to a place with snakes , although none had appeared to alarm the children , snakes or secrets . |