Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 2 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 3 | I said to him the other day , well four weeks ago . |
| 4 | I said to him the other morning I said do that again I said look , I 'll get you out of bed . |
| 5 | he 's , he 's like this , he 's got to get on , get everything done , that 's what I said to you the other day , leave |
| 6 | What someone said to me the other night is that you 've got 75% of it and that 's good . |
| 7 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 8 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 9 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 10 | you said to him the other night . |
| 11 | Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan ? |
| 12 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 13 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 14 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 15 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 16 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 17 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 18 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 19 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |
| 20 | He said to us the other day , ‘ This little country is the key . |
| 21 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 22 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 23 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |