Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 2 | He was confident he 'd brought her to the stage where he could lay her . |
| 3 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 4 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 5 | In fact , he was the man who 'd escorted her to the door to mark the end of her first visit . |
| 6 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 7 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 8 | He 'd mutilated her to the point of death but — being a Buddhist — he had n't killed her . |
| 9 | She had n't expected to be greeted with open arms , but the reception she 'd actually received had shaken her to the core . |
| 10 | 780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
| 11 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 12 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 13 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 14 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 15 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |
| 16 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 17 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 18 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 19 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 20 | The man was a demon and he had disturbed her to the depths of her being . |
| 21 | That eruption of passion had blinkered her to the risks she was taking , letting herself get involved with a man like this … |
| 22 | He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror . |
| 23 | How it had shrivelled her to the point of annihilation . |
| 24 | Fearing her correspondence would otherwise be intercepted , the queen-dowager had entrusted it to the care of Cardinal Bourchier — sending it by a trusted servant to the cardinal 's residence , requesting that it be forwarded to her cousin forthwith . |
| 25 | The initiative was taken by Helen Crawfurd , a militant suffragette and socialist whose involvement in the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike had awakened her to the possibilities of resistance by working-class women . |
| 26 | Anyone who became Nawab expected to be rich , and took it for granted that he should reward those who had helped him to the throne . |
| 27 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 28 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 29 | It had been her overwhelming need for money — a great deal of money — which had drawn her to the London Metal Exchange . |
| 30 | He had shown her to the guest bedroom . |