Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course covers areas which are not the province of any one Department and is taught by Staff from many different academic backgrounds , thereby bringing to it a range of experience . |
| 2 | It merely appeared to him a paradox worth someone 's attention : how a man such as Thorkel described could inspire what Thorkel undoubtedly felt for him . |
| 3 | This did not seem to me a reason for appointing a chairman ; it might be a reason for appointing some sort of official ; though in fact it would not be a sound reason for appointing anyone . |
| 4 | I usually read to them a bit , but there 's no need for you to . |
| 5 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 6 | It has always seemed to me a pity that Evelyn Waugh , the one person present with a gift for writing , was blind to the historical significance of the occasion , impercipient of this last manifestation of Abyssinia 's traditional pageantry . |
| 7 | can I say that as long as the integrity of each religion is preserved , then education is a very sound er erm is very sound in prospect , but sadly it has become a melting pot and as my Noble Friends like to refer to it a mish-mash and I do n't think it does anything more than serve to confuse children if it 's done badly . |
| 8 | But their flaw — — and this is particularly true of Bruce — is that they telescope the development of the Northern Ireland civil rights movement and retrospectively ascribe to it a coherence and a level of strategic thinking which it never had . |
| 9 | At the same time he also passed to us a folder containing photographs of the crashed aircraft . |
| 10 | His once quiet , undemanding ease now felt to her a lack of response , a rejecting casual indifference . |
| 11 | When all else failed , or it simply appealed to her a woman could always turn to the ranks for employment . |
| 12 | ‘ In our experience of past privatisations , customers have dipped into their savings to fund the share purchase and then returned to us a month later to deposit the proceeds of an immediate sale . ’ |
| 13 | Minter , had he but known it , was right as well as wrong : right that Harry was running short of cash , wrong if he believed that currently mattered to him a jot . |
| 14 | They 're people who are pathetic , who are sad , who have had an awful lot of knocks in life and I often think that one of the things that everybody in society could do is actually talk to them a bit more . |