Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er ye well er , it was when , no let me think I went to Ipswich , I did a till the First War ended . |
| 2 | I do n't think I went to bed , and at first light Father O'Sullivan came into my office . |
| 3 | ‘ Tell me , Rachel — ’ his tone was even , measured , with no trace of the tender passion of only moments earlier ‘ — why do you think I went to Australia ? ’ |
| 4 | So round I went to Daddy 's flat . ’ |
| 5 | I mean I said to Shaun on a Friday night we 'd better decide this , otherwise there 's no point in us coming through tomorrow mate , we might as well stay at home and go to the football or something |
| 6 | I mean I said to Scott |
| 7 | I mean I spoke to Jane the other Sunday and I , I said to her you know , just be honest , I said I do n't care what you said , but just be honest and tell me how much you think I weigh , cos she does n't know how much I weigh and she thought I weighed about ten stone , I said well stick thirteen pounds on top of that , then you 'll be right , she could n't believe that I , that I weighed that much , so obviously it does n't look that bad and people at work , well they 've noticed that I 've lost weight , but they do n't say how much they think I weigh , so I do n't want come to them to sort of , have a , have a g have a guess of my weight . |
| 8 | I mean I spoke to Ken before he started doing this exercise , and I 'm worried |
| 9 | No I went , as I say I went to bed . |
| 10 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 11 | From the studios and shows I visited I spoke to women artists , all of whom graduated in the last 10 years about their work , their experiences with galleries , residencies , organising shows and lecturing , in an attempt to assess current directions in women 's work and gauge their position within the art world . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know you went to church regularly , ’ said Ianthe . |
| 13 | Also the ‘ I 'll be back ’ WAV file that you say you assigned to Windows events and the internal speaker driver , are not supplied with Windows 3.1 . |
| 14 | as I say we went to bed her and I |
| 15 | Quite often we found we went to places where there was n't such a thing ’ . |
| 16 | And erm , I did n't know they came to orchestra , perhaps they 've only just joined . |
| 17 | His successor , President Endara , says he wants him extradited to Panama for his alleged part in the 1985 beheading of the politician Hugo Spadafora . |
| 18 | And he came once to me on the district to me I do n't know he went to others . |
| 19 | ‘ And how do you know he went to Geneva ? ’ |
| 20 | This omits the details on Mildred , but adds , in a way reminiscent of chapter 5 of the 1027 Letter , that Cnut was most acceptable to the emperor , and says that on landing he hurried to St Augustine 's to offer them rich gifts — no doubt including the gold plate which he took from his treasures and held aloft to attract the saint 's attention during the storm . |
| 21 | Hoomey found he looked to Jazz for support , trusting his judgement . |
| 22 | Some histories say he returned to England during the Great War , but most comment that he spent the war years in Australia and New Zealand before returning to Surrey in 1919 . |
| 23 | How did he go to pieces , when you say he went to pieces ? |
| 24 | She says I spoke to people last night , everyone is devastated . |
| 25 | ‘ Who says I spoke to Helen ? ’ |
| 26 | After about five or six years of wandering I returned to Bradford . ’ |
| 27 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 28 | They 've never comed back , an' 't is said they went to parts where folks was properly thankful for things done for yum . |
| 29 | Mr Segni says he resorted to referendums after more than ten years of fruitless debate within the party on institutional reform . |
| 30 | Now he says he wrote to S & N chairman , Alec Rankin , asking him to explain fully the reasons for switching away from diesel . |