Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 2 | The basement cattery seemed to her a sinister place , though she knew that the animals were most lovingly tended by Miss Pettigrew . |
| 3 | The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows . |
| 4 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 5 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 6 | Rain murmured to her an unconvincing : ‘ It 's all right . ’ |
| 7 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 8 | It was a rough crossing , and most people were rather quiet , and a few were vomiting over the railings and indeed all over the upper-deck , but Clara had never felt better , and the rough lurching seemed to her an added attraction . |
| 9 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 10 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 11 | They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful . |
| 12 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 13 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 14 | Loch Ranza opened to us a complete change of scene : there were houses , a church , an inn , and even the old castle was allowed to retain its site , and guide the fishers in their homeward course . |
| 15 | To the day of his death on the guillotine in January 1793 France remained to him an unknown land . |
| 16 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |
| 17 | but the actual extract as , as Cath said to me the other day , you know she felt sure and I said to her you know in a full length film they could 've actually chosen a better moment |
| 18 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 19 | Strange as it may now seem , the primacy of Canterbury seemed to him an immovable feature which guaranteed the firmness of the whole structure . |
| 20 | The work is enormous — comparisons with the second piano concerto are entirely justified , as familiar melodic and rhythmical thematic material pounds in the ears — and Conway and Evans brought to it a satisfying feel of sonority and stature . |