Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lowered the torch to floor level just in case anyone was watching and squeezed the bag gently . |
| 2 | As the two of us struggled with an awkward table at the 3p.m. closure of a day in Christian Aid Week 1992 , my companion asked me if I knew the answer to number 13 in Duncan Innes ' C.A. Quiz . |
| 3 | Having had three reviews printed and received a veiled death threat from The Godfathers , I was already something of a celebrity in my native Wigan when I took the train to Commonwealth House . |
| 4 | I had no time to steam my Christmas pudding , so I poured boiling water over it and ate it like cake . |
| 5 | You 'd have a patch you see and your trousers would be patched , and er I had no brothers to sort of hand-me-downs so of course mine we went had to be worn out , and erm you 're normal attire in those days was a er a pair of trousers and a jersey , you did n't have a suit as such . |
| 6 | I had an addiction to heroin , thanks to Seth , too . ’ |
| 7 | I have to be honest and admit that I accepted the invitation to dinner to try to find out once and for all if you were involved with Martin , but that was because I needed to know , needed to prove your innocence , because I was falling in love with you . |
| 8 | Self-consciously , I shifted the ground to literature , regretting that the emblems of alchemy were now too arcane to be of service to modern writers . |
| 9 | A member of the Scottish Girls ' team for the European Team championship , she led the side to victory in the Home Internationals . |
| 10 | She believes she passed the habit to daughter Cherie as she puffed 50 a day during pregnancy . |
| 11 | If , for example , you changed a word to italic , the word-processor would record a mark before the italicised word indicating ‘ italic from now on ’ and a second mark after the italicised word so it knows to return the rest of the text to normal style . |
| 12 | While she handed the goods to mother , who opened the cover and grease paper within to place on a plate , Carl had detected a chippy smell from her breath . |
| 13 | She willed the piss to fountain out of her . |
| 14 | She managed to slip the skirt over her head gingerly and settle it in place with its ribbon ties , but she realised that she needed a maid to lace up the front of the separate bodice for her . |
| 15 | Joy Holloway lived next door to the kennels until she persuaded the council to rehouse her . |
| 16 | She felt an urge to tousle his hair and say , Never mind . |
| 17 | She chose a man to leech from . |
| 18 | Among her mentors were John Elliot Cairnes , W. Leonard Courtney , and W. A. Hunter [ qq.v. ] , from whom she learned an attachment to laissez-faire economics and liberal political principles . |
| 19 | ‘ She did a piece to camera on every single thing she did . |
| 20 | In interviews , she had claimed there were no diabetic residents at Lancaster House and that she had no access to insulin even though it was kept in an unlocked refrigerator , he said . |
| 21 | Was she sure that she had no objection to Sancerre with the meal ? |
| 22 | And as she had no desire to house-hunt herself , she left the choice to her family in England . |
| 23 | She accepted an invitation to dinner that following day . |
| 24 | In union negotiations , for example , I always found that if you had a heart to heart with the opposition , the single leader , you could probably gain something . |
| 25 | ‘ You wrote the letter to Gran ! |
| 26 | Instead she advocated a return to elegance … dressing-up in the widest , and often wildest , sense . |
| 27 | But at the end of it all she left the stage to applause loud enough to rock the rafters , knowing with an angry certainty that she 'd failed . |
| 28 | In 1889 she published a Guide to District Nurses and Home Nursing which became essential reading for district nurses . |
| 29 | At first we asked the women to rate , on a scale one to ten , the effect of relaxation on their level of anxiety . |
| 30 | The four-and-a-half gallons of oil take about ten minutes to warm up to the minimum 40°C , and we used the time to taxi around the sheltered bay within Calshot Split , checking for debris and driftwood and surveying the area . |