Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 2 | An 11-pounder I caught came to such a bite , and four others around 9lb on the same day to similar bites . |
| 3 | I thought I 'd gone to all that trouble to lure you into my net , sort out the money , only to send you back into his arms . |
| 4 | ‘ When I started to listen to all the stuff , I thought I 'd be sick of everything . |
| 5 | Because there are no expressions of regret afterwards , I assume I felt entitled to some sort of reward . |
| 6 | Secondly I did write to all the members of the Council about the issue of the British National Corpus and their desire to have a record of English as she is spoke and their is a gentleman from here today , if you would care to stand up to identify yourself please . |
| 7 | I ought to be on holiday , but I was n't : this was merely a brief interlude before I had to report to that wretched banker and enmesh myself in a host of false relationships in the Ingard office , to try to discover — what ? |
| 8 | The nearest thing I had seen to this were monsoon drains in Malaya : deep , concrete channels meant to take away storm water , but which usually lay like mantraps , just under the flood surface . |
| 9 | ‘ I wanted to run away , to hide , but I had to return to this lonely , meaningless place . ’ |
| 10 | I did it all on me own , of course Alan sat here like a bloody idiot , I said you sit there do n't get , he said I thought you were getting a cloth , I burnt all me arm trying to , jumping out , hacking me hair out there so I had to say to this bloke I said well there 's erm justice for you , he said what ? |
| 11 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 12 | It is necessary I had come to that view for me , at that time it was necessary for me to contact one of the duty Chief Officers and on this occasion it was the Assistant Chief Constable Mr , so I made contact with him . |
| 13 | He even produced the document I had signed to that effect , bringing to my attention the relevant clause . |
| 14 | Someone had to respond to this demand , the small little shop in the village could n't do it , even the big Co-ops could n't do it . |
| 15 | Joyce left and to my surprise , I continued to go to that quiet room every morning . |
| 16 | The first meeting place was a small room in Fetter Lane in 1840 which became known to some interested people who took a house in Red Lion Square where some destitute deaf men and women were lodged and taught trades . |
| 17 | Another issue which seemed to lead to few concrete proposals was language across the curriculum , where the school was also criticized for having few clear policies . |
| 18 | The handsome and sombre costumes , historically accurate , are relieved by colour only in the auto-da-fe , which seemed to belong to another production and signally failed to make the flesh creep , even when the fire was lit in the victims ' underground cage . |
| 19 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 20 | The persuasiveness of Lugard 's arguments owed something to his extraordinary personal reputation , which happened to conform to that of the finest imperial type . |
| 21 | In a detailed study of the Stormont archives , Bew , Gibbon , and Patterson ( 1979 ) have shown that there were indeed different currents within the Stormont administration but the ones which predominated belonged to those among the ruling protestant classes who were bent on preservation of the status quo for their own purposes , including their own dominance of the protestant alliance as well as their particular sectional interests . |
| 22 | The most important point at issue was the tactic of infiltration which had led to several splits in the American Socialist Workers ' Party , the dominant group in Trotsky 's Fourth International . |
| 23 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |
| 24 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 25 | When , in January , 1988 , Prince Edward enlisted in Lloyd Webber 's Really Useful Company , in the humble role of general factotum , with the improbable public assurances that he would be treated " no differently from anybody else " , it seemed not only an oblique confirmation of royal patronage , but that Lloyd Webber himself had ascended to some peculiar level of hierarchy where he was able to employ princes as tea-boys . |
| 26 | I asked him instead if he himself had talked to any of the owners ' party . |
| 27 | You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school . |
| 28 | There was no gentleness like Lisa 's fierce love ; and she tried to respond to that while another darker voice called her to unconsciousness and silence . |
| 29 | The same people who 'd listened to those jokes were laughing in earnest now ; were calling him ridiculous . |
| 30 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |