Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I went to bed ; I suppose it would be around midnight . ’ |
| 2 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 3 | Early in the 1890s she went to work under Mrs Hugh Price Hughes at the West London Mission . |
| 4 | All this he left to Mother . |
| 5 | I was so relieved I went to bed for two days . |
| 6 | In 1929 she shot to stardom on Broadway in a Noel Coward play . |
| 7 | In 1892 he went to work in the Great Western Railway works in Swindon , principally as a hammer-man , remaining there until 1914 . |
| 8 | Through the summer of 1929 he complained to Dobrée of roasting in the modern city 's horrors ( yet wondered if he would find the country any more bearable ) . |
| 9 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 10 | I 'm just , all I can say is I 'm , I 'm but I 'm glad I went to school , okay ? |
| 11 | ’ At the age of 21 I turned to prostitution to provide money for drugs as I now had a heavy addiction . |
| 12 | About quarter to eleven we got to bed , but they were going on I fell asleep during the middle of it cos I just got used to the noise |
| 13 | I 'm sure she went to heaven or thereabouts . |
| 14 | Well i i and if it cried well you let it cry , you just let it go on crying until it was so tired it went to sleep . |
| 15 | At sixteen he went to work for his uncle , a London wine merchant , but by 1810 was established as a confectioner in Marylebone . |
| 16 | The success that Mr Clinton made of his economic package — the speed with which Congress passed his deficit-reduction measures , the positive reaction in the markets — convinced too many that he would turn all he touched to gold . |
| 17 | In 1655 he responded to news of the persecution of the Waldenses by arranging a day of fasting in the Channel fleet and a collection for the victims . |
| 18 | In 1950 he returned to Parliament as member for Hampstead till 1966 . |
| 19 | I did n't make friends easily , but the funny thing is that some of those I went to school with , and was n't so close to , have become good friends in later life . |
| 20 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 21 | And for some time after that they went to bed at the same time and Ellen gave up both Jed and the Director of Social Services ; and when both threatened , in grief , spite and unreason , to report her infidelity to Bernard , said , ‘ Tell away ! ’ and neither of them did , which rather disappointed her . |
| 22 | The nearest she came to solitude was the interval that elapsed after she had forced herself to dial 999 on Maurice 's car telephone . |
| 23 | At first they continued to rail against the regime , but Simpson 's ardour had cooled enough by July for the council to order his release , on condition that he did not come within ten miles of London . |
| 24 | The former they ran to earth at last at the smithy , a tiny Black Hole of Calcutta where Matthew Grimble , the blacksmith , lived with his portly wife and ten portly children . |
| 25 | Apart from the alienation of some of his followers , the loyalty of many others was so tried that by 1013 they submitted to Swegen with little resistance . |
| 26 | In the evenings they read together , keeping silent because he believed that silence was more real than chatter , and at half past nine they went to bed . |
| 27 | In 1794 he returned to mineralogy , studying at the Freiburg Bergakademie under Abraham Gottlob Werner . |
| 28 | As early as August 1986 he wrote to South West Water 's headquarters in Exeter complaining that ‘ we seem to move from one crisis to another . |
| 29 | I grew up wanting not so much money as glamour , and when I left school at 15 I went to work in the department store , Bourne & Hollingsworth . |
| 30 | In 1982 she transferred to Company Registration , Registrars Department where she was one of the founder members of the Savers Section . |