Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If all that money we gave to Band Aid did n't do the trick , it must be because there are just too many of them . |
| 2 | This morning it went to number one this is tremendous news and from it we 're going to have A Hundred Children . |
| 3 | Secondly , some people I spoke to thought that local planning had been slowed by uncertainty about last year 's general election and the possibility that a Labour government might have diluted or delayed the community care reforms . |
| 4 | That winter she went to work at another farm , where Marian was working . |
| 5 | During that period she turned to alcohol for comfort . |
| 6 | When Lewis himself was speaking , it was not always easy to find a tame atheist who was prepared to come along and be mauled in public debate ; for on these occasions he reverted to type and became again the P'daytabird prosecuting an unlikely prisoner in the Belfast police courts . |
| 7 | That night I went to sleep in a tree for the second time , and the next day I went on with my journey . |
| 8 | Each night she retired to bed a few minutes earlier , and he saw it as an excuse to avoid the means of starting another pregnancy , though she was in the best of health . |
| 9 | You , you had to in those days you had to sort of er use your common sense because if you had a big healthy baby it 's a long while to go right through ten o'clock at night till six o'clock the next morning . |
| 10 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 11 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
| 12 | Later that year he went to work in Canada , but on his return , in |
| 13 | Wayne Thomas , 19 , appeared before magistrates on four occasions — but each time they agreed to defence applications to allow him bail . |
| 14 | Each time we went to bed , you 'd realize that it was Andrew I wanted to lay with . |
| 15 | Each time I returned to life |