Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Did you have a good time ? ’ my mother asked Robert as I whispered to Lili that I found old age unclean and a disgrace . |
| 2 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |
| 3 | As I said to Mum , there will be thousands there and if David Markham is one of them it will just be a question of avoiding him . |
| 4 | As I said to mama then , by the time I am bedded , I shall likely be too old — or have forgotten what it is I am supposed to do ! ’ |
| 5 | That was the real reason I was sweating as I went to bed that night . |
| 6 | I remember feeling a bit disappointed as I went to school on the morning of my birthday — I 'd rather have stayed home and finished the aviary . |
| 7 | An eleven year old girl has been raped as she walked to school . |
| 8 | An eleven year old girl has been raped as she walked to school . |
| 9 | Thousands of children are being warned not to go out alone after an eleven year old girl was raped as she walked to school . |
| 10 | The 11 year old was grabbed from behind as she walked to school along this path in Milton Keynes . |
| 11 | He says a rape in daylight involving an 11 year old as she walked to school is particularly serious . |
| 12 | The girl was attacked as she walked to school along a footpath on the Two Mile Ash estate , last Thursday . |
| 13 | The 83-year-old Roman Catholic nun , winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize , fell as she walked to chapel at one of the Rome residences of the order she founded , the Missionary Sisters of Charity . |
| 14 | On adjacent courts , Amanda Brown — the former Wightman Cup player — shone as she romped to victory over Queen 's No. 1 Alison Grant 6–1 6–1 , while team mate Judy Rich — who this time last year led the Queen 's attack — took just four games more to defeat Karen Cass in the other singles rubber . |
| 15 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ she told me as she went to bed that night . |
| 17 | God knew what effect this would have on Mrs Browning , but as she went to bed that night she had no feelings of optimism left and already there yawned ahead a great void . |
| 18 | Liz put it on her bedroom mantelpiece , and touched it , every morning on rising , and every night as she went to bed . |
| 19 | And finally , as she went to bed , she heard them singing softly , shushing each other and giggling , as one clear voice ( Sue 's , she recognized ) carried on the melody . |
| 20 | Next morning , Dot was surprised when Gloria got up early and left for the Housing Applicant Office the same time as she went to school . |
| 21 | As SHE went to press , the campaign for registration was debated in the House of Lords to whom we sent the results of the SHE survey . |
| 22 | SOCCER boss Graeme Souness comforted his lover Karen Levy yesterday as she went to court to get cash from her ex-husband . |
| 23 | As she slept in her Italian-designed tube steel bed with the iron-grey duvet , she felt sure that Steve in the room across the corridor must know who was in there with her , and as she went to work next day , she felt sure that everyone must see what she was dragging with her . |
| 24 | The conversation carried on for half an hour and then they parted company as she went to work and he went off to his job . |
| 25 | The ‘ sexually mature ’ 14-year-old followed the officer from an early-morning bus as she travelled to work , pushed her through a gate and attacked her only yards from the police station , said Peter Testar , prosecuting . |
| 26 | Then as she started to unbutton her blouse she moved around the bed and sat down , turning her head to one side to read the titles of the books in the mellow light from the table lamp . |
| 27 | All sorts of alarming sensations rioting in the pit of her stomach , she mumbled incoherently against his mouth as she tried to arch closer , only to be thwarted by the fork handle . |
| 28 | As we went to bed that night , my wife said : ‘ I was very proud of you today . ’ |
| 29 | The BMC have sought clarification from the organisers and from Ben Moon ; as we went to press no reply had been received . |
| 30 | STOP PRESS : As we went to press , EMI announced a series of re-issue CDs in celebration of Arthur Sullivan and his work with W.S. Gilbert . |