Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The destruction of the temples and the towns round them led directly to a rebuilding programme . |
| 2 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 3 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 4 | I was quite stunned , because in the beginning I was struggling with it — all those regions around top A — and in the end , in Resurrection , I got up to a D above that , without going into falsetto , which was quite a little crusade for me . |
| 5 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 7 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 8 | After primary school I moved away to a different High School but I have the photographs and certificates of achievement that I have worked for . |
| 9 | ‘ It was important that I moved on to a bigger stage , with a club in the top bracket of the English First Division , or Celtic and Rangers . ’ |
| 10 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 11 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 12 | I staggered back to a cold bed but Margot and Phoebe had fled . |
| 13 | I cycled out to a completely deserted field , with the trenching left open , as the farmer kindly filled-in every year with a machine . |
| 14 | On Easter Monday 1972 , I woke up to a new view of the world . |
| 15 | I strolled over to a bar stool , mounted up and set Barry down in an ashtray . |
| 16 | I rushed out to a payphone to break the good news to Karen . |
| 17 | If , if I walked up to a policeman in the street and gave him a little shove , the chances are he would arrest me , unless it was done in a totally friendly way . |
| 18 | I PULLED in to a diner about five miles short of Waldron and took aboard some fried ham and a couple of eggs sunny side up . |
| 19 | Missing the students , I crushed on to a table occupied by several globular exters with drooping antennae and startled expressions . |
| 20 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 21 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 22 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 23 | Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street . |
| 24 | Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast . |
| 25 | After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable . |
| 26 | Well I went down to a rental firm , you know |
| 27 | The do that in wonderful community centre , I went there to a good function the other evening , very good fish and chips and as well . |
| 28 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |
| 29 | To make sure of the facts I went back to a 1985 Wireless World ( May & June ) series to read up and it seems you are completely correct . |
| 30 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |