Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got her up to seventy-five , too . |
| 2 | And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , . |
| 3 | and I moved it over to that corner there , where nothing else grows |
| 4 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 5 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 6 | And I brought it down to half a dozen staff . |
| 7 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
| 8 | They never ever mention them bloody things , they were them windscreen wipers which I ordered before Christmas and it 's , it 's ridiculous , cos that 's , I know I can eh , I know by the er , by the er , that 's where I sent them back to that Brian Mill whatever I call it , well |
| 9 | to send out and I sent it out to all the users |
| 10 | The nose-wheel is normally lifted at seventy knots to rotate at ninety , but because of the wind I held her down to 95 for a clean lift-off at a hundred after a run of a thousand yards or so . |
| 11 | Rapt , ecstatic , she willed me on to ever-greater feats of ardour . |
| 12 | If you kept it up to three months there 's cat in hell 's chance you 'll lose it after that . |
| 13 | Her pencil rattled out a staccato rhythm on the desk-top , as she tossed it angrily to one side . |
| 14 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 15 | Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise . |
| 16 | After he 'd had a heart attack , we got him back to good health . |
| 17 | ‘ We drummed it in to all three of our children not to go off with strangers and Johanna was sensible enough to listen , ’ said Robert . |
| 18 | We carried him up to that hollow . ’ |
| 19 | The make you , sort of what were doing when making another member of staff , so there 's a going on full time having free coffee like Dinda did , much change it to be , but I mean it 's just there for free , all day every day , she 's now ten penny piece in , they get a card , get a little pin pricked on , every time they used it up to twenty they get twenty cups of coffee on its card |
| 20 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 21 | Not that United disgraced themselves in any way at all , they matched Spurs ball for ball and played some delightful football and an awful lot of courage ; they were two nil down when they pulled it back to two one , they were three one down when they pulled it back to three two . |
| 22 | — His great-grandad lived next door to me for years , before they took him away to that home . |
| 23 | But no I think er they thought I could speak English better than some of them themselves so they sent me off to English universities or wherever to put across our problems . |
| 24 | His commuter companions were impressed by this sudden fame , and Dad told me delightedly how they pointed him out to each other on Platform Two . |
| 25 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 26 | Four pound a week more on the dole , cos we were having elected earnings and tax rebates on the dole and it and it made it up to eighteen pound . |
| 27 | ‘ I had a tough childhood and it spurred me on to great heights . ’ |
| 28 | Picking her up as if she were a doll , he placed her on to unsteady feet . |
| 29 | He guided her backwards to one of the posts which supported the roof . |
| 30 | He clued me in to some strategy . |