Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The QDMs passed to you by the DF operator are now your track to the station . |
| 2 | Sun Microsystems Inc hopes to get one of its workstations on BBC1 's Tomorrow 's World science television programme in the UK tomorrow : Oklahoma State University 's Dr Marvin Stone has developed a hand-held device dubbed ‘ the thumper ’ which can measure the ripeness of a watermelon by delivering a blow to its skin and Sparcstations can put up a colour map indicating the ripeness of a field of watermelons from data downloaded to it from the thumper . |
| 3 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 4 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 5 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The voice could then be raised until the instrument responded to it above the level of the background noise . |
| 8 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 9 | To miss out on the opportunity afforded to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to deny those in the greatest housing need the opportunity to get decent low cost housing . |
| 10 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 11 | Agassi 's coach came to me with the rackets . |
| 12 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 13 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 14 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ My wife does n't want you hanging around her like a pet dog , ’ Nahum said to him after the service one Sunday morning . |
| 16 | Fernando turned to her from the fridge where he was taking out a bottle of wine . |
| 17 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 18 | Lightness and truth came to her with the wind 's speed . |
| 19 | Donald Crubach played to him by the hour . |
| 20 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 21 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 22 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 23 | But Edouard lied to her about the reason for the attack . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 26 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 27 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 28 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 29 | ( 'They said to me in the shop , ’ she 'd said to Anna , ‘ they said did I want the one with a little man on or not . |
| 30 | ‘ Two years ago Adai talked to me about the AOL . |