Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 3 | It will always be a mystery , a thing that happened to me like the seasons , like floods and lightnings , without question or escape . |
| 4 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 5 | If randomized control and experimental groups end up substantially different , something that happened to them in the experiment almost certainly caused this . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | All that mattered to him for the moment was the feel of the bedsheets angling Golden Girl northward . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He pushed aside the pan and went to her by the sink , wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 15 | The children stood on the top step and spoke to him over the half-door . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Patsy and her sons arrived in the village on Friday evening and spoke to us on the telephone . |
| 18 | Have we always seen such change and uncertainty and responded to it in the same way ? |