Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret was nearly out of her mind when she asked me to come out here to look for you , but that 's all in the past now . |
| 2 | She phoned me earlier this week and invited me to come down here to see her land . |
| 3 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 4 | I marvel he ever steeled himself to hit hard enough to stun , and to break the branch in the blow , even though it was partly rotted . |
| 5 | It also made him want even more to pull her close and heal her wounds with a kiss . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you came round here to ask if I 'd seen anything suspicious last night , not grill me about my sex life . ’ |
| 7 | Did you speak fairly slowly to help them ? |
| 8 | After that , while never again did she stay long enough to have supper — or do the washing-up — Rosemary , still popping across to Leith 's and Sebastian 's flat at any time , accepted about two invitations in particular each week for coffee . |
| 9 | After 1341 , however , the costs of war fell sharply from the levels they had reached between 1338 and 1341 , and not until the 1370s did they begin once again to approach those levels . |
| 10 | Nowhere in the above description of manager training did it explain how best to carry the role of mediator . |
| 11 | Never at any time in his career did he set out solely to defend . |
| 12 | cos I mean they do n't usually do they , but he did he came up there to see me |
| 13 | The sarcastic note in his voice had her swinging round furiously to face him again . |
| 14 | Izzie said you 've nowhere else to go ! ’ |
| 15 | But , although the business generally had to be won at lower margins in the face of stiffer competition , our performance should have been very much better , and would have been had we responded more promptly to market fluctuations . |
| 16 | said they went in just to see how she was |
| 17 | Had they come out here to talk about the murders ? |
| 18 | He would have warmed to Eileen had he lived long enough to get to know her . |