Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 2 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 3 | ‘ A while ago I said I 'd listened to a thousand , but the figure 's probably closer now to 2000 , ’ says Jim . |
| 4 | Even if I 'd agreed to a fifth series , Pemberley would n't have lasted for ever . ’ |
| 5 | It could n't be that I was right , and while I yearned to return to a certainty I already knew , I heard only my mother 's voice , insisting , on one dead note , that she knew of what life should consist . |
| 6 | ‘ I decided to go to a financial adviser , ’ continues Angie , ‘ He advised me to remortgage with a lender with a lower standard rate and for £20,000 more than we had originally borrowed when we bought the house . |
| 7 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 8 | Later on I managed to move to a quiet dorm which was really great and very essential to saving my sanity . |
| 9 | It is very difficult a Sunday , but it Actually although we did n't take a vote on the bus , the few people that I did speak to a few people , and they were not terrible exited at the idea of of an outing during the week . |
| 10 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 11 | From the look on her face you 'd think that I had confessed to a desire to murder her family and steal all her money . |
| 12 | I had said to a promising-looking man behind a counter , but it seems I should have said ‘ Cup of tea ’ and left it at that , for he put his hands on his hips and shouted , ‘ What 's stopping you ? ’ |
| 13 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 14 | Erm I had to go to a table like that which said square roots and I had to look up twenty |
| 15 | I had gone to a town about a hundred miles north of Rangoon and had spent Christmas night in a village seventeen miles away . |
| 16 | Earlier , I had spoken to a Uruguayan woman and her boyfriend . |
| 17 | I had returned to a very different Air Force indeed . |
| 18 | The telephone rang while I was busy explaining to Tony Crosland that I could not accept a further term of office at the Housing Corporation , since I had been appointed to the Mastership of University College , Oxford , but I had agreed to a request that I should at least stay for another year to see someone else in . |
| 19 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 20 | We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’ |
| 21 | One fruitless morning , after an unusually rude dismissal from a eunuch 's house , I retired dispirited to a nearby dhaba for a cup of chai . |
| 22 | An upper-class homosexual-looking man with white hair and glittering eyes came up to me and asked if I wanted to go to a Black Mass . |
| 23 | I du n no I just said I wanted to go to a pub I did n't say I was going to the pub . |
| 24 | Did you notice much differences in the work once you got promoted to a chargehand ? |
| 25 | ‘ Is this him ? ’ she asked pointing to a sober gentleman in a bowler hat and pin-stripes coming towards us . |
| 26 | Better than that , the Power Launcher itself has a timed event facility , which means that you can set it to open an application at a given time — so that file you promised to send to a colleague via modem by ten o'clock on Thursday can be sent automatically , even if you 've taken the day off sick ( assuming the cleaner has n't switched your PC off , of course ! ) |
| 27 | Making matters worse there were slip ups too when she tried miming to a backing tape . |
| 28 | You stopped to talk to a friend and that was when I photographed you . ’ |
| 29 | His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club . |
| 30 | It had been styled rather well , as though she 'd gone to a really good hairdresser and it suited her , was soft over her forehead and short at the back . |