Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Yorkshire , in common with East Anglia , has an ever-growing number of memorials , many of them dedicated to Canadian squadrons of Bomber Command . |
2 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
3 | Our trucks had open sides and Marius , Vermulen and I clung to each other , faces buried in our hoods , as we churned down the slushy autoroutes , the speed of the trucks sending icy , sawing winds through us at seventy kilometres per hour . |
4 | The point I made to half , and now I 'll make it again to the whole , yesterday , was that it 's very important to , to define your roles in a particular thing . |
5 | So I expanded to thirty percent on the , they had a Metroset in those days , and I said , you know , this is not likely to work so I 'm sending it out getting handset phototype , so I did . |
6 | I agreed to both these things and carefully picked up two of his officers in my hands . |
7 | I agreed to this trip because of that . |
8 | ‘ Heaven knows , when I agreed to this I 'd no idea it would cause such anger — ’ She gave Peter a reproachful glance . |
9 | When I got to higher ground , I sat on a long , flat slab of white rock in a salmon-pink sea . |
10 | She has encouraged me to talk about what happened before I got to that stage , and to think about what might have led up to it . |
11 | I I got to that erm question you know you said could n't do any the geometry do the rest . |
12 | And of course they go up here beautiful and I was going to take this apple and they 're all gon na fall and I got to that , Jesus it just about . |
13 | Well whe , when I got to that |
14 | But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look . |
15 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
16 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
17 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
18 | Now when I was preparing this evidence , I got to this point and I thought to myself , why on earth has this not happened in Richmondshire ? |
19 | My one ambition had been to be a pro , and I got to ten handicap . |
20 | And I got to ten seven on that . |
21 | I was so frightened you 'd walk out of my life again that I sank to ignominious depths to keep you close to me . ’ |
22 | Scotland I found to most Peruvians who had heard of the place meant two things : whisky and Cubillas . |
23 | I moved to one side with Jamie helping me and went down on my hands and knees on a comparatively clean part of the concrete where the oil stains looked old . |
24 | ‘ I moved to another pad . |
25 | When I was eleven I moved to secondary school , Henry Compton in Fulham . |
26 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
27 | So then I moved to brighter colours . |
28 | Next day I moved to 40 Beaumont Street and began a vastly expensive career of alcohol . |
29 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |
30 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |