Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 2 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 3 | Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre . |
| 4 | ‘ I think , ’ she said , deliberately lowering the tone of her voice , which was bordering on the hysterical , ‘ that something happened to you in the past , you loved someone else , and it 's turned you into a bitter man . |
| 5 | No one spoke to her except the woman at the public toilets . |
| 6 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 7 | Everybody talked to me in the corridor . |
| 8 | If anything happened to him during the mission , Coleman was worried there might be a problem in claiming on life insurance policies taken out in his real name . |