Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 2 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 3 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 4 | So I rounded up my bird-fancying friends ' old copies of Cage and Aviary and studied them until I got back to the very beginning of the season , early March . |
| 5 | I moved round to the other windows , but I could not see her in any of the rooms . |
| 6 | I moved in to the front room where the disco had moved on to heavier metal ( New Model Army , I think — a band to watch despite their fans ) but still nobody was dancing . |
| 7 | IN THE EARLY 1970s , my wife and I moved out to the northern beaches of Sydney . |
| 8 | I changed back to the Tasmanian Devil and had a similar thumping take first cast . |
| 9 | I wandered back to the main entrance of the chateau and found Benjamin , equally disconsolate , sitting on the steps . |
| 10 | However , they caused me no ill and I staggered back to the Golden Turk and the tender care of the slattern , a bowl of rich broth and countless frothing tankards of ale . |
| 11 | I came back to the beautiful beach house from shopping . |
| 12 | I pedalled back to the High Street , past Magdalen and across the bridge to the Plain . |
| 13 | Breathing a sigh of relief , I drove over to the local airfield and arranged for the flight to take place a week earlier , just in case . |
| 14 | Shortly after a private reading with ‘ Bartholomew ’ in Taos , New Mexico , I drove down to the nearby Rio Grande . |
| 15 | One Friday evening , I drove down to the lovely old house , Ramster , near Chiddingfold , where artist Mr Paul Gunn and his charming wife Miranda had invited friends to the first night of an exhibition of Paul Gunn 's most recent landscapes , and to drinks and supper . |
| 16 | I dropped on to the wet doorstep , worn out and hopeless , prepared to die . |
| 17 | They told me they were on holiday today and shyly peeped round great blocks of stone as I climbed on to the hitching post of the sun , the most sacred place in the temple . |
| 18 | On one side was the flower-garden view ; on the other , one window had been bricked up at the time when windows were taxed , and I walked over to the remaining window . |
| 19 | I walked over to the grassy map of Mindanao ; they followed . |
| 20 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 21 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |
| 22 | On the third visit I switched over to the large search coil and within fifteen minutes was holding numerous buttons , buckles , seals , some copper coins and — best of all — a Queen Anne gold guinea . |
| 23 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 24 | I reached up to the nearest branch which seemed likely to hold my weight . |
| 25 | I thought back to the 17th and remembered Lee 's words : ‘ Mr Lu does n't want to win the Open Championship . ’ |
| 26 | I went up to the tall , dark girl . |
| 27 | So I went up to the general manager Mr and he he sa told me certainly I can go . |
| 28 | I went up to the 1970 Open at St Andrews on spec with a few players in mind but no firm bag . |
| 29 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 30 | I went over to the rear door and looked out , seeing a little open boarding platform with a polished brass-topped balustrade and , beyond , the Canadian Pacific 's single pair of rails streaming away into darkness . |