Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [indef pn] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 2 | Lucenzo muttered something to the man , who grinned understandingly . |
| 3 | Brenda welcomed everyone to the meeting . |
| 4 | His intelligence owed nothing to the college . |
| 5 | Pearson 's work owed something to the influence of his Johnsonian friend , Hugh Kingsmill [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Then , on September 9th , Amundsen called everyone to the back of the ship . |
| 7 | Anselm 's departure contributed nothing to the solution of his own problems ; it only benefited the royal treasury , to which the archiepiscopal revenues were now added . |
| 8 | Such an anachronism owed something to the belief of Simon Draper — Virgin 's ‘ ears ’ — in the higher ideals of musical taste . |
| 9 | Now , returning across the Hungerford Bridge , those same thoughts came to haunt him a little as the overhead lights stained everything to the colour of dull old parchment . |
| 10 | But the name meant nothing to the visitor ; obviously his fame had not penetrated the student community . |
| 11 | The man in the booth did something to the turnstile , then we all pushed in . |
| 12 | Silver sent Dick to fetch the rum , then Israel said something to the cook in a low voice , and I heard only a word or two . |
| 13 | The foreman yelled something to the ceiling in another language and stomped toward the door saying , ‘ The whole world is crazy , I tell you . |
| 14 | Gómez said something to the Indian , then hurried after him . |
| 15 | Her black satin dress left nothing to the imagination , and neither did the way the man with her was gazing into her eyes . |
| 16 | Wycliffe returned everything to the drawer . |
| 17 | ‘ So here the plaintiffs left everything to the defendant 's husband ; … and they must take the consequences of his having obtained it without explaining to her or her understanding what she was signing . |
| 18 | As Niki rightly points out , that year proved something to the whole of FI . |
| 19 | The success of those appearances in the cities of Tokyo and Nagoya owed everything to the professionalism that had transformed Kylie in two short years from innocent to hard-headed star . |
| 20 | ‘ The Mamelukes did nothing to the hurt of Kyrenia , because the King stopped them . |
| 21 | A loud gong from the house summoned everyone to the driveway to greet the master . |
| 22 | The Malcolms said very little although that daft Janet mumbled something to the effect that the meeting , held prior to Grunte 's ‘ treat ’ , was in bad taste . |