Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 2 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 3 | ‘ Get on with it , Will , ’ she said , ‘ I 'll be down in a minute , got to see to my mam . ’ |
| 4 | Gradually one bin became filled to its brim with heads and feet , another with slippery , gaily coloured entrails . |
| 5 | Similarly , some heads sought to accommodate to their ‘ core ’ philosophy ideas and concerns from other sources — their reading , their membership of award-bearing courses , their out-of-school reference and membership groups , their professional and social networks . |
| 6 | Stirling was accompanied by Seekings and Cooper as usual , and planned to drive to his target in the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 7 | As a consequence they were ‘ extracted ’ from their culture and failed to communicate to their own people . |
| 8 | The peasantry never became resigned to their condition . |
| 9 | ‘ The most glaring one was last night when you tried to appeal to my pragmatic nature by admitting that ‘ it would only be lust ’ — no doubt you imagined we could establish some sort of ‘ adult ’ agreement on the basis of that . ’ |
| 10 | She tried to cling to her comforting belief that somewhere in the Company was Friend with all that his glow of meanings implied ; the feel of him was still clear in her mind . |
| 11 | Colour flooded her face as she tried to struggle to her feet , desperate to evade the hand that was stretched towards her . |
| 12 | She tried to struggle to her feet , pulling at her skirt that was half under Fernando . |
| 13 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 14 | He saw how Wolfe 's leg muscles flexed impotently as he tried to scrabble to his feet ; how he squirmed in the two men 's grip , trying to get away . |
| 15 | I could hear foreign voices raised in the kitchen and stopped listening to my companions . |
| 16 | When she heard Jacques Devraux join her husband for a final drink at the table in the canter of the clearing , she tried to listen to their conversation . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's the bastard trying to do , Nurse Dungarvan ? ’ he mumbled as Dr Curtis tried to listen to his chest ‘ Tell him to get the hell out of it . ’ |
| 18 | I tried to talk to her father … by the poolhouse . |
| 19 | ‘ Dr Kemp tried to talk to your husband yesterday lunchtime . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Is it possible that there was some secret in your uncle 's life which he confided to Francis and which Francis tried to use to his advantage ? ’ |
| 21 | Such pictures she always found calming to her nerves and she had no need of the large net which was hung at the top of the staircase , to catch those distracted adolescents who attempted suicide in the converted country house where she received her education . |
| 22 | All of this was hidden behind the ‘ normal ’ lifestyle that I tried to project to my family and friends , ’ days Paula Farrance , 28 , from St Albans . |
| 23 | Finn tried to get to his knees , but groaned and collapsed . |
| 24 | But the Shaymen with just nine away goals all season failed to break through and Scarborough tried to add to their tally . |
| 25 | He tried to add to her full glass . |
| 26 | She remained bent towards the portrait of the dead mandarin for several seconds to show the spirits how deeply repentant she was , and when she rose to return to her place she kept her head bowed so that her dark hair fell across her face and hid the tears of remorse in her eyes . |
| 27 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 28 | Statistical analysis was performed using the χ 2 test with or without Yates ' correction , the Fisher 's exact test and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test , each applied according to its own indications . |
| 29 | He also agreed to talk to his father , who had helped him a good deal in the past . |
| 30 | Their manner of life and lack of learning were denounced by reformers ; but they lived according to their own customs and traditions , and there is little evidence that they were more commonly celibate , or less ignorant , in 1200 than in 1000 . |