Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went out , I had n't even I 'd said hello to him , that was it . |
| 2 | I 'd made love to her class of Englishwoman before , and had no particular wish to renew the experience . |
| 3 | In fact , you were the first woman I 'd made love to in quite a long time , and I have n't even been interested in anyone since you were offered this job here and accepted it . |
| 4 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 5 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 6 | However , even if I 'd had access to the book at the time — he gave a signed copy to Mrs Goreng when he left and another to the American woman journalist , which I accounted a waste-it would not have been wise to argue . |
| 7 | I wanted to go to Scotland and I remember I came to say goodbye to my parents and that was in the evening and I went by train to Liverpool Street and it was pouring with rain and I had to make my way , I had a taxi across to Euston , you see , and er and I went up th the left side of the country , see , past Carlisle and and then across and across and then and to Greenock er er to Dunoon , you see . |
| 8 | I hated making love to women I did n't even like . |
| 9 | As I turned to say good-night to my sereno , and to press a tip into his palm , the deep-blue sky held a brimming star — Orion . |
| 10 | I decided to put pen to paper and let you know of a few problems some of us have in trying to become machine knitters . |
| 11 | In particular , I needed to gain access to teachers ' appointments panels within the school where it would be possible to observe appointments procedures , collect documentary materials such as copies of application forms ? curriculum vitaes ? references and job descriptions and follow up my investigation by interviewing candidates who had applied for posts after their interview had taken place . |
| 12 | I proceeded to serve port to some other of the guests . |
| 13 | Then I went to say goodbye to her . |
| 14 | In fact I went to wave goodbye to grandma . |
| 15 | Hard to explain the conflict in our acquaintance , but perhaps I had an instinctive feeling that she , in fact , wanted me to go to bed with her , and she knew I would n't — because if I did make love to her , it would be a victory for her and a defeat for me . |
| 16 | Now I know that when I had made love to you that afternoon I was right to follow my instincts . ’ |
| 17 | John 's script was so true and real and fine , I felt I had to do honour to that , and to the kind of people that it was talking about . |
| 18 | Then he tried to force me to take the damn' thing , and I had to call attention to my delicate condition . |
| 19 | On her last evening , after I had said goodbye to her , I happened to pass by a café in which she was sitting , pensively reading a newspaper . |
| 20 | Then I had said goodbye to all my friends . |
| 21 | Came the sad morning when I had to say goodbye to the crimson walls , white statues , giant mirrors and piped music of O'Brien 's Hotel . |
| 22 | I had to make love to both of them in the lift . |
| 23 | In the distance I could hear something , something I had to pay attention to . |
| 24 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 25 | I then returned to the little inn where I had ordered dinner to be ready at an hour early enough to allow me to walk back to Ballachulish in time for the calling of the steamboat on its Fort William route . |
| 26 | As Mappin says , ‘ … someone had to take tennis to the public … ’ |
| 27 | Someone had set light to a sofa on the second floor beneath a party on the floor above . |
| 28 | In other words , someone had set fire to the dacha , and the things had been stolen from it before the fire had started . |
| 29 | With a slow smile for her look of astonishment , he added , ‘ The first time I saw you , I wanted to make love to you . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't say I wanted to go to bed with you , but that I wanted to make love to you ; a subtle difference , ’ he chided , ‘ and I do n't know why you should look so disbelieving — you have a lovely supple body … |