Example sentences of "to [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said well I 'm trying to I said this bloke what happens to be my oldest brother I said , and he wo n't even tow it for me ! |
| 2 | Yeah well I was only in Gwindy for three years , then I went to Lewis Girls because I lived this end of I had to go to I loved Gwindy school . |
| 3 | On Oct. 22 , 1989 , Ogonek published a poll , only 12 per cent of respondents to which believed that perestroika ( " restructuring " ) would lead to significant positive change ; only 23 per cent said that their living standards had improved over the previous two to three years . |
| 4 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 5 | Nonetheless the 1991–92 figure clearly needed to be brought back to a more affordable level , and during the ‘ star chamber ’ exercise in the spring to which referred last year , the contract with Westminster Strategy ( our PR consultants ) was renegotiated , and the budgeted figure for the current year has been reduced to £170,000 . |
| 6 | Anyway , she went to she took this sister 's post in The Yale |
| 7 | WELCOME to who joined last November to develop the company 's pet food trade in continental Europe . |
| 8 | Arguments then ensued as to who allowed other speakers to continue for more than their allotted time . |
| 9 | It seems as though some dispute as to who controlled these charities arose , for a letter to the parish council in 1936 , from the Charity Commission , states that the Mays Charity and Dyers Charity were both Parochial non-ecclesiastical Charities , within the meaning of the 1894 Act . |
| 10 | Those close to him rejected official claims ( later confirmed by a post-morten requested by the Justice Ministry ) that he had died from high blood pressure , alleging instead that he had been tortured . |
| 11 | a big str , a bit strong fellow to he had good legs on him , he did a lot of cycling you know |
| 12 | All had agreed that one Christopher E. Chryselius would be employed in the workings , and he was to he paid one guinea a week — no mean wage . |
| 13 | The dialogue which ran up to it showed good pace , and the strength of the star 's performance , absent in recent days , began again to show through . |
| 14 | This was nothing to what came ten years later , no more than a mini-boom , but prices began to rise and estate agents to rub their hands and gird their loins and look about them . |
| 15 | However , there is something of a mystery as to what caused that origin . |
| 16 | The graveyard , was Clary 's base , where he would establish himself , as he spoke with his fellow partners in life , about mindless things , which seemed funny , to what seemed low life citizens . |
| 17 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 18 | It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ It is quite wrong for any member of this House to compare what happened in 1957 to what happened last week . ’ |
| 20 | It was the highest ever vote for our party and the modest swing to us reflected great credit on the many people who helped the Liberal Democrat campaign in South West Surrey . |