Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 2 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 3 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 4 | I took it to this kid at |
| 5 | Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe . |
| 6 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |
| 7 | First , I regressed him to former years and previous golfing tournaments when he had done exceedingly well , so that he was again able to savour the feeling of success and achievement . |
| 8 | ‘ It was over the night I accompanied you to that dinner and backed up your story . |
| 9 | She sent me to that convent , thinkin' she would make something o' me . ' |
| 10 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 11 | but because he knew it was our troop , you know but erm , that 's the thing when you , nine times , about eight times out of ten you did it to another troop , but then again they did it back to you , but this time he was a right cocky son of a bitch , I mean we all liked him , but he was right cocky bastard , so he |
| 12 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 13 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 14 | No , the council 's took it over , they sold it to this bloke . |
| 15 | before they transferred him to another prison . |
| 16 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 17 | To be on the safe side , they sent it to several countries . |
| 18 | Cos erm they gave it to this woman and the woman gave it to me . |
| 19 | They buttressed me to some degree from the isolation I felt . |
| 20 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 21 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 22 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 23 | He tied him to some trolleys ! |
| 24 | I wanted to lash out at them : Vern did n't help me , I do n't need anyone to help me — he took me to this boat alone at night and we … |
| 25 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 26 | He sent it to several publishers and recommended that I accept an offer from Norton , a fairly up-market American book firm . |
| 27 | And it worried me to that extent that I almost went without your okay and rang up Terry and said , please fix those blinds , because we have got blinds which cost almost two hundred pounds or something and or a hundred and nineteen pounds , and it seems they ca n't fix them . |
| 28 | It lead them to this house on Magdalen Road in Oxford … where law graduate Georgia Griffiths was living with her sister and two other girls . |
| 29 | He introduced me to this world that I had never really come across before . |
| 30 | Then he introduced us to each other . |