Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 2 | At the eighth count he received 42 more , transferred from Egan ( PG ) , eliminated , who had had voted transferred to him from five other candidates , F , H , B , Cr and O'S . |
| 3 | then Sandy has n't given me a time but I think I 'd suggested to him between six and seven I think people like that they do n't have to go home and |
| 4 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd gone first , the house would have come to you with ten thousand and the rest would have gone for research into glandular diseases . ’ |
| 6 | She realised that not having spoken to him for ten days had given her a perspective she had not previously had — a perspective on herself as well as him . |
| 7 | ‘ Something might well have happened to her after eight days . |
| 8 | He did n't like to think too much about one of the conversations that Jack Ashdown had reported to him on one of Joe 's occasional check-ins . |
| 9 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 10 | Philip Mairet had written to me on 14 February 1937 saying that Eliot had ‘ promised ’ an article . |
| 11 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Edward had remarked to him at one stage . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've bowled to him for two days and I ca n't get him , ’ he explained , ‘ so I just want to loosen up . ’ |