Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd better take me to this Wyrmberg of yours , had n't you ? ’ |
| 2 | The way he went away hurts me to this day . |
| 3 | Sometimes this was easier and cheaper , especially as increasing population could outpace workhouse provision ; sometimes it was because the parish officers discriminated in their application of the " test " and did not apply it to all kinds of claimant . |
| 4 | The former qualities did not endear him to those in the Council who wanted change , and a replacement of the tramways by buses . |
| 5 | I did n't introduce him to either of those things , his father Albert paints and my husband took it from him . |
| 6 | Rincewind glanced around quickly , in case some leakage of enchantment from the Magician 's Quarter across the river had momentarily transported them to some other place . |
| 7 | If she had n't subjected her to that late-night journey , with all the upheavals that had accompanied it , perhaps the poor child would not have fallen ill . |
| 8 | Taking up residence in Colchester went very well — though I was a bit surprised to find that the ‘ de-skilling ’ process mentioned by the resettlement officer had indeed affected me to some extent . |
| 9 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |