Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
| 2 | ‘ I showed it to some of my friends and they have had a good laugh about it . |
| 3 | ‘ I wrote a postcard to my parents , ’ recalls Margaret Olmer ; ‘ I ca n't remember if I addressed it to both . |
| 4 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 5 | I WAS married four years ago to a girl I loved very much , but I lost her to another man , because I was so incompetent when it came to having sex . |
| 6 | ‘ I treated you to that , did I ? ’ |
| 7 | I took it to this kid at |
| 8 | So I sent it to another in New York , and he took it . ’ |
| 9 | Now the point I 'm trying to make — the reason I sent you to that 2D universe — is that I reckon we 're making the same mistake — about the space of our universe . |
| 10 | The male started to bully the female , so I removed her to another tank — better to be safe than sorry . |
| 11 | First , I regressed him to former years and previous golfing tournaments when he had done exceedingly well , so that he was again able to savour the feeling of success and achievement . |
| 12 | ‘ It was over the night I accompanied you to that dinner and backed up your story . |
| 13 | ‘ You drove me to this . |
| 14 | Somehow , and from somewhere , a beautiful young woman appeared — this was no imagined vision — and she took them to some hot springs where they all ended up naked . |
| 15 | She sent me to that convent , thinkin' she would make something o' me . ' |
| 16 | She goes on slowly and naively : ‘ I 'm really glad , in a way , that you took me to that place . |
| 17 | but because he knew it was our troop , you know but erm , that 's the thing when you , nine times , about eight times out of ten you did it to another troop , but then again they did it back to you , but this time he was a right cocky son of a bitch , I mean we all liked him , but he was right cocky bastard , so he |
| 18 | ‘ We showed it to some professional scriptwriters and they could n't believe what they were reading . ’ |
| 19 | No it , we took it to this bloke and I do n't know what he 's done with it because it played before we took it and when he , he said it were n't worth doing and when we brought it back it wo n't even roll now even play now will it ? |
| 20 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 21 | No , the council 's took it over , they sold it to this bloke . |
| 22 | before they transferred him to another prison . |
| 23 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 24 | They took him to that private clinic , the one in the hills . |
| 25 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 26 | This is the daft nuns they sent you to all them years ago and your head ‘ s still full of the rubbish they crammed into you . |
| 27 | To be on the safe side , they sent it to several countries . |
| 28 | Cos erm they gave it to this woman and the woman gave it to me . |
| 29 | They buttressed me to some degree from the isolation I felt . |
| 30 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |