Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By some miracle , the 2CV had n't been towed away when I 'd finally dragged Ash out ; we 'd made it to the M1 , picked up a hitcher and — rather beyond the call of duty , I 'd have said — dropped him where he was going , in Coventry . |
| 2 | By 25 past , we 'd made it to the car when I realised that I wanted to push — panic ! |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
| 4 | He was confident he 'd brought her to the stage where he could lay her . |
| 5 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 6 | That she 'd introduced him to the Fletchers to keep him there … well , she deserved it . |
| 7 | In fact , he was the man who 'd escorted her to the door to mark the end of her first visit . |
| 8 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 9 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 10 | He 'd mutilated her to the point of death but — being a Buddhist — he had n't killed her . |
| 11 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 12 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 13 | She had n't expected to be greeted with open arms , but the reception she 'd actually received had shaken her to the core . |
| 14 | 780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
| 15 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 16 | At Holly 's request Rosie had added it to the list of diary items Rain would offer at the afternoon conference . |
| 17 | Whereas Catherine the Great had confined them to the western and southern borderlands of the empire and Alexander I had encouraged them to consider economic diversification and cultural assimilation , Nicholas intervened in their lives more dramatically . |
| 18 | A tramp had found her freezing and near to death on the doorstep of a gin palace near the Elephant and Castle and he had carried her to the local Catholic church . |
| 19 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 20 | He could see that whatever was agitating his friend had pushed him to the limit but he judged it better to let him get it off his chest than keep it bottled up . |
| 21 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 22 | This was the street along which she had run , a skinny and excited ten-year-old , to boast to her father that she was the only girl who had made it to the next round of the chess competition . |
| 23 | He sat on the top of the large expanse of teak desk and stared coldly at the men who had made it to the top of one of the biggest corporations in the world , employing nearly one million people . |
| 24 | Nineteen of us had made it to the end . |
| 25 | ‘ You were lucky to make it to the lav , ’ observed Lydia , meaning that she was very grateful that Betty had made it to the lav , since one of the rules is that the afflicted person does not mop up her own vomit and Lydia was absolutely no good at doing this . |
| 26 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 27 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 28 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 29 | The man was a demon and he had disturbed her to the depths of her being . |
| 30 | That eruption of passion had blinkered her to the risks she was taking , letting herself get involved with a man like this … |