Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I repeat a proposition that I made to a previous Leader of the House . |
| 2 | At one time a business proposition came up and , thinking it would help him kick his habit , I agreed to a joint overdraft . |
| 3 | I moved to a yellow and tartan design . |
| 4 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
| 5 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 6 | Then I moved to a different teacher to get some more , you know , experience . |
| 7 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
| 8 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 9 | In the grounds of the Elgin Cathedral , I mentioned to a passing man , a local , with whom I had fallen into conversation , ‘ Dr Johnson had a meal here , that was so bad he could n't eat it . ’ |
| 10 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 11 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 12 | Open pastureland succeeded the neglected wood as I walked on , and soon I came to a rough circle of boulders on a mound — Lisheen , the little fort , home of fairies . |
| 13 | In the end I came to a good old British compromise . |
| 14 | Soon I came to a strange place where the river divided , one part of it compressed as a hurling white torrent between steep artificial banks , the other part let into a tranquil canal that entered Galway from the countryside . |
| 15 | At nine o'clock , after twelve miles , I came to a slippery escarpment , a cascade of sand tumbling five hundred feet to a plain which , in spite of a slight haze , I could see stretching some sixty miles south and west . |
| 16 | Separate from my parents in another country , I came to a new knowledge of me as a self apart . |
| 17 | Nervously , I moved forward , fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole . |
| 18 | I managed to hold the aircraft straight for a short distance , running on the nosewheel which , luckily , had escaped damage , but as the speed came off the aircraft slewed sharply left and I came to a slithering , steaming halt about 200 metres the other side of the dyke , well off the runway . |
| 19 | Five hours later , after I had passed beneath a crudely-lettered blue notice board that welcomed travellers to the unpeopled jungle vastness of Darién , I came to a wooden sign that said simply ‘ Sante Fé ’ . |
| 20 | I raced to a private home and called the Associated Press office . |
| 21 | I turned to a medium natural to me when dealing with emotional occasions — versifying . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that I succumbed to a mild form of food-poisoning through eating at the cheapest restaurants — a meal could he obtained for ten ( old ) francs or less , but less meant the more chance of prostration — I have never known Paris so surpassingly beautiful as that year . |
| 23 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 24 | Cos I I did n't sort of go by fairs and things like that , I belonged to a different generation . |
| 25 | I chatted to a Dublin-bound nurse in the seat beside me , and looked out as lakes , rivers and deeply-furrowed potato patches flashed by . |
| 26 | On the way home from the Sheffield spectacular , I talked to a veteran Communist miner , thrilled at the thought of " the movement " when it 's moving . |
| 27 | There were also , in more recent years , the series — like " At Home " , in which I talked to a different subject each week in his or her domestic setting . |
| 28 | So I dashed to a central London hotel and sat with both Scotty and his longtime friend , drummer DJ Fontana . |
| 29 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 30 | I went to a small dressmaker in Lillie road with some material brought from Newfoundland on one of the brief dockings . |