Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to [pron] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 2 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 3 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 4 | Graham smiled to himself at the thought of that . |
| 5 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 6 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 7 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 8 | Wycliffe chuckled to himself at the picture he had conjured up . |
| 9 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |