Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caroline concentrated on a spot on the wall while Fabbiano , kneeling on the floor before her , whisked a needle and thread through the hem of the scarlet silk dress that clung to her like a second skin . |
| 2 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 3 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 4 | It will always be a mystery , a thing that happened to me like the seasons , like floods and lightnings , without question or escape . |
| 5 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 6 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 8 | Then I need to think about all the strangeness that happened to you as a child ; my firstborn son has already told me something of your life , and of the questions you have for me . ’ |
| 9 | In an effort to salvage the protocol , other delegates have put together a counterproposal requiring any country that decided to mine under the terms the US proposed to withdraw from the entire environmental protocol and not just the mining clause . |
| 10 | All that mattered to him for the moment was the feel of the bedsheets angling Golden Girl northward . |
| 11 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 12 | Jacques Donzelot has argued that women actively colluded with doctors because of the new-found status that accrued to them within the family as educators of their children and as medical auxiliaries . |
| 13 | Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel . |
| 14 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 15 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 16 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 17 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 18 | But as he drew level with Grace Richard gave her a smile which melted her heart , and waved to her in a way entirely peculiar to himself , half way between a naval salute and a discreet gesture with the rolled umbrella . |
| 19 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 20 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 21 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 22 | ‘ Comm 's working , ’ she said , and listened to it for a few more moments . |
| 23 | A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see . |
| 24 | Stupid though it might appear , she went upstairs and spoke to them from an upper window . |
| 25 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 26 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 27 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 28 | And Anwar was very patient with Changez , and spoke to him like a four-year-old , which was the right thing to do . |
| 29 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 30 | Periodically she turned to me and spoke to me like a teacher to a beloved but dull-witted child . |