Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] to [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the dance ended , he released her without a word and moved away to talk to his mother and sister , who had been crying passionately in the church as they watched Damian become Rachel 's husband . |
| 2 | He was always talking about it and it caused much worry to his mother Sadie and her husband Daniel . |
| 3 | I said Well I 'm sorry you 'd better refer to my solicitor who 's told me that you need a court order . |
| 4 | Perhaps you 'd better talk to our Matron , Miss Vinall . |
| 5 | He was staring and trembling and his great-size seemed only to add to his air of stricken misery . |
| 6 | The affair seemed only to add to his status as folk hero . |
| 7 | Davidoff et al have shown that the Beau Ideal was underpinned by a morality of mutual duty and service , although the benefits and freedom which each participant drew from such an arrangement varied directly according to their position in the hierarchy . |
| 8 | William went inside to talk to his Mum |
| 9 | Her reputation as a glutton meant that while she often visited the matron with digestive problems these escapades did little harm to her popularity . |
| 10 | Did more damage to my marriage than he did to my house . |
| 11 | She paused , looking at him reflectively , and then asked : ‘ Do n't you think you had better speak to your father about all this ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You had better come to my room , then . ’ |
| 13 | My mind had suddenly switched to my dinner date with the French family . |
| 14 | Its creator 's reaction to it had merely added to my fright . |
| 15 | Much as he wished that Aunt Tossie might keep her mind on the Form Book , where their interests in beating the Handicapper ran together , he had nevertheless acceded to her insistence on a party , a small house party , for Nicandra 's first real ball . |
| 16 | She had already discovered to her cost just how strongly attracted she was to him on a physical level . |
| 17 | While Paddy Mayne and his men were busily raiding , Stirling had finally succumbed to his desert sores and had been hospitalized in Cairo . |
| 18 | He had finally settled to his fate : socialist entrepreneur of the grand scale . |
| 19 | They had just gone to their bedroom , leaving friends and relatives at the reception downstairs , when the alarm was raised at 1am . |
| 20 | In fact , facing page 119 , there it was , with Westerby duly posing in front as though it were an animal he had just hunted to its death . |
| 21 | Barry Glenn , assistant manager at Perry 's Brasserie in Darlington , had just returned to his home in Harris Street on Sunday night when a raider struck . |
| 22 | He had always pretended to his employer that he did n't . |
| 23 | Although the family was now impoverished and the estate sold Lord Dungannon was bringing up his considerable family in a modest villa in Bayswater — the boy had still gone to his father 's school . |
| 24 | Hands tingling with fear , hearing only the thundering of her heart , Isabel stepped over the threshold to confront the wife of the man who had once come to her aid , and whom she must now betray . |
| 25 | the unzipped valise that had once belonged to her sister Christine . |
| 26 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 27 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 28 | Charlie tried to take in everything at once , but his eyes settled on a coloured picture that had hung above his bed in Whitechapel Road and had once belonged to his mother . |
| 29 | The position of some of the pictures , which had left them exposed to direct sunlight for many decades , had also contributed to their deterioration . |
| 30 | Jubilant reaction from the purity camp showed just how central legislation had now become to their programme . |