Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 2 | Dorcas called them over and pointed to the tank above them . |
| 3 | The band finally reached the end of their last number and she all but leapt to her feet , switching on her brightest , falsest smile as she looked down at him . |
| 4 | Molly pointed to the bright bunch on the scrubbed table and Giovanna gathered them up and strode to a hook on the dresser where they dangled with all their labels . |
| 5 | He screwed them up and sank to the floor . |
| 6 | Harvey helped me up and pointed to a concrete runway just below us . |
| 7 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 8 | They stared at each other for a moment in tense silence ; then gripping the aide of the bedclothes , he swung them upwards and exposed to his amazed gaze her grey outdoor coat . |
| 9 | Lorton showed them out and went to the kitchen to pour himself a drink . |
| 10 | She edged them out and scrambled to her feet . |
| 11 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |
| 12 | She turned from him now and ran to the door and up the back stairs . |
| 13 | Fiver and Acorn followed him out and fell to nibbling at a patch of sainfoin . |
| 14 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |
| 15 | I looked at it afresh and came to the same conclusion . ’ |
| 16 | She crumpled it , threw it away and went to bed . |
| 17 | Mattie had wanted to put a shawl over her shoulders , but she had shrugged it off and demanded to be left alone . |
| 18 | Constanza found him uncouth and a bore — that was one of the things being with Simon did to one — she broke it off and went to parties again . |
| 19 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 20 | He picked it up and went to the door of the tent . |
| 21 | He picked it up and turned to the address section at the back . |
| 22 | He took it up and flew to a stance on one of the wooden buildings round the Park . |
| 23 | Mrs Frizzell snatched up her property , tried wildly to wrap the books in the remains of the paper bag , dropped one of them , picked it up and fled to the cloak-room at the back of the hall , followed by the titters and sniggers of not a few ladies who , knowing the reason for her purchase of the books , could well have rescued her from her predicament , but saw no reason to do so . |
| 24 | Ward ordered vodka , drank it straight and went to sleep with *Muerto O Vivo ? open on his lap . |
| 25 | oh , oh dear oh She said that one , one lady did a lot of recording and then played it back and listened to herself and did n't like her own voice so she wiped it all off and handed it in . |