Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him . |
2 | Perhaps he only aimed to chivvy those civilians in another direction , but was inexpert in the settings of the weapon . |
3 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
4 | Exactly a week later I suddenly went to Oxford by the most impossible train which stopped at every station . |
5 | 2 weeks ago it finally came to trial 2 weeks ago and today was the day of judgement , but she 's still waiting . |
6 | I used to read to the family , and pray with them in the evening , and then I usually went to bed at nine o'clock . |
7 | After going through the conductor 's course I then went to Leith depot , old Leith depot er of the , with the tramcars . |
8 | For a moment Sarah fell silent , then she suddenly turned to Ruth . |
9 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
10 | ( Old hands recall how Punch , on a day off from the Paris bureau in 1955 , saw a sports car plough into the crowd at Le Mans and kill 87 people ; no other reporter from the newspaper was there , yet it never occurred to Punch to call his office . ) |
11 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |