Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 2 | He tendered a dry , crisp hand to her on the doorstep and inclined his head in farewell . |
| 3 | He never troubled me again — in fact , he even used to say good morning to me on the way to school . |
| 4 | Some see it and have sound explanations , like one Magar lady in rural west central Nepal who gave a ten-minute lecture to me on the problems of the transference of fertility from forest to arable land , and changing uses of crop residues with increasing population pressure , that would have stood up well in a graduate seminar . |
| 5 | He felt like nursery food after the pummelling he 'd had during the meeting and that was the nearest thing to it on the menu . |
| 6 | ‘ Evil ’ , she wrote , ‘ does get into bricks , tragedy into mortar , ’ It is new light to me on the properties of bricks and mortar . |