Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubled to the other side of the deck and joined the Sergeant Major and Brigadier Mills Roberts . |
| 2 | I reiterate the point that I made to the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow ( Dr. Godman ) . |
| 3 | After a very pleasant lunch therefore , I taxied to the very end of the runway , turned into wind and took off . |
| 4 | I only realized what it was when I got to the front door . |
| 5 | As soon as I got to the other side of the bank I threw myself down and started to roll . ’ |
| 6 | And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side . |
| 7 | I got to the Imperial at about half twelve and waited for Mark and co , unfortunately I had told him I would be in a leather and , due to the leather not being available that day I was wearing a lumber jacket ! |
| 8 | I can not say that my school days were particularly happy ones and I was not sorry to leave when I got to the official leaving age , which was fourteen in those days . |
| 9 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 10 | The humid heat of the New Guinea forest had probably proven too much for someone used to the dank climate of south Wales , they reassured Joan . |
| 11 | For someone used to the tiny creatures we get in England it was something of a shock , and I said as much as I leapt into the air . |
| 12 | It was not that I objected to the public baths . |
| 13 | The relevance of the lengthy preliminary exposition which I devoted to the modern Freudian theory of society should now begin to become apparent . |
| 14 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 15 | I moved to the leaded window , looked out . |
| 16 | Moderator I reported to the general assembly last year that the Board of Social Responsibility had planned a deficit on its operation of thirty eight eventide homes amounting to a little over two million pounds . |
| 17 | In Chapter 1 I referred to the changing attitude among the leaders of Eurocommunism towards the institutions of Western democracy , and their radical reconsideration of the Leninist model of a revolutionary working-class party , which was elaborated in specific historical circumstances and no longer has any relevance for the politics of socialist parties , particularly in the advanced industrial societies . |
| 18 | His two companions , however , sniggered as I referred to the great cardinal , affairs of state , and finally to the Luciferi . |
| 19 | In the opening pages of the book I referred to the pragmademic gap that seems to exist between pragmatists who have not had the benefit of a formal systems education , but might wish to make use of soft systems ideas , and those who have developed and applied these ideas at a more academic level . |
| 20 | When I put my question to the Secretary of State for Defence , I referred to the hon. Member for Glasgow , Govan ( Mr. Sillars ) . |
| 21 | I muttered to the closed door . |
| 22 | While I came to the Arctic when I realized that climbing , my first love , was losing its appeal , Tony was born to the area , loving it , one might believe , even before he saw his first photograph of it . |
| 23 | I remember learning this lesson painfully when as a new curate I came to the weekly staff meeting in Cranham . |
| 24 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 25 | I came to the rapid conclusion that anyone tackling it must be either incredibly brave , extremely stupid — or both ! |
| 26 | I came to the braided reaches of the river where it swung out over the sands , and adjusted my steps so that I cleared all the channels easily and cleanly , a leap at a time . |
| 27 | After the first week I came to the reluctant conclusion that Charlie Trumper was n't going to be pleased that I had sacrificed ten pounds of our money — six of his and four of mine — just to appease my female vanity . |
| 28 | I gestured to the remaining woodchuck to crouch . |
| 29 | I gestured to the low hills rising to the west of his police station . |
| 30 | These I consigned to the waste-paper basket . |