Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now when we was between sixteen and eighteen if you was unemployed you 'd got to go to school . |
| 2 | She 'd had to dash to HQ Communications , as the Colonel had insisted his coded message go out that evening . |
| 3 | According to his biographer , Henry Bordeaux , even when he landed he remained in a trance ‘ as if electrified by the fluid still passing through his frame ’ Though through so many dogfights he seemed to bear a charmed life , this kind of nervous impulsiveness seemed bound to lead to disaster . |
| 4 | If you 'd wanted to go to church you could have gone to St Ermin 's which is much nearer . |
| 5 | It was a subconscious form of mourning for a foolish love she 'd allowed to spring to life in her heart , only to kill stone dead — except that her feelings for Dane were far from dead , she acknowledged ruefully . |
| 6 | No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy . |
| 7 | The summer and autumn of 1960 were months of profound malaise , as the hopes that negotiation had provoked turned to disillusionment . |
| 8 | There was also one student who had taken the baccalaureate — a combination of ten subjects , arts and science ; she had considered changing to English in her first term at university . |
| 9 | As his eye travelled over them , the trepidation which Huy had felt turned to contempt , and then to pity , for here were nothing but sorry fragments of imagination . |
| 10 | He had decided to go to bed early . |
| 11 | Exhausted by anxiety and emotion , Clare had decided to go to bed early . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you 'd forgotten your coffee and had decided to go to bed instead , ’ he said , looking disapprovingly at her freshly done hair . |
| 13 | In fact , only one serious relationship lay behind her , with a Wellington actor who read news bulletins in order to eat , and it had died owing to lack of feeling , disappointing them both at the time , but Maria had philosophically absorbed the lesson at the heart of the sad experience . |
| 14 | Following the data which was being projected on to the tiny screen , it was clear that the telemetry and guidance modules had performed according to specification . |
| 15 | The number of times she had had to go to school with no knickers on was nobody 's business , she often told her husband . |
| 16 | In January 1973 I found myself , and the grey metal trunk my eldest brother had used to take to university in 1967 , dumped in an austere fifth form dormitory in the main block of the school . |
| 17 | Quatar announced in February 1988 that both sides had agreed to resort to arbitration by the ICJ . |
| 18 | ‘ They say you can tell all about a person from looking at his books , ’ said Constance , who had become addicted to book-collecting since she had acquired a car-load of secondhand volumes from a fair in the Midlands . |
| 19 | In Haussmann 's Paris as well , all had become subordinated to traffic ; everything was organized around circulation , in straight lines from railway stations along the boulevards . |
| 20 | ‘ What happens now ? ’ she finally asked when the silence between them had become stretched to breaking-point . |
| 21 | The problem had been high on the agenda of an OPEC ministerial meeting held in Vienna in mid-March [ see p. 37335 ] , but both Kuwait and the UAE had refused to agree to production cuts . |
| 22 | He had refused to go to bed on time , insisted on watching The Late Show on television , and claimed that Badger was ‘ not worthy ’ to lick him . |
| 23 | During September Patil had refused to bow to pressure from the Congress ( I ) high command to appoint certain individuals to the state Cabinet . |
| 24 | She had wanted to go to bed with Freddie Nash more than anything else in her life . |
| 25 | They had hoped to appeal to Education Secretary Kenneth Clarke to overturn the decision . |
| 26 | McAuley , who has driven for the factory teams of Swift and Van Diemen over the past two years , had hoped to graduate to Formula Three this season , but was unable to raise the £150,000 budget . |
| 27 | If things had gone according to plan , Jack would n't have been within 325 000 kilometres of Apollo 13 on that fateful day , 13 April . |
| 28 | If everything had gone according to plan then Joe was well and truly out of the picture , and he , Michael , had the perfect alibi . |
| 29 | The first part of the day had gone according to plan . |
| 30 | Everything at first had gone according to plan . |