Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 2 | The voice could then be raised until the instrument responded to it above the level of the background noise . |
| 3 | To miss out on the opportunity afforded to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to deny those in the greatest housing need the opportunity to get decent low cost housing . |
| 4 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 5 | Agassi 's coach came to me with the rackets . |
| 6 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 7 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 8 | Lightness and truth came to her with the wind 's speed . |
| 9 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 10 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 11 | ( 'They said to me in the shop , ’ she 'd said to Anna , ‘ they said did I want the one with a little man on or not . |
| 12 | My father read to me in the evening , something I looked forward to enormously . |
| 13 | An eager public woman appealed to him with the story of her cleaning woman , who had proved herself at fault . |
| 14 | The Inspector turned to her for the first time , but if he was cheered by her observation he gave no sign of his approval . |
| 15 | The problem for the students to some extent , is being compounded by the withdrawal of housing benefit , which means that they 're paying the full cost of rents in the private sector , whereas before they might have been getting ten , twelve even , more pounds a week refunded to them through the housing benefit scheme . |
| 16 | Vehicles started up again and a familiar voice shouted to him from the side of the truck . |
| 17 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 18 | When word came to them of the Macleans , three galleys off the Rubha Aird Druimnich , they just sat and waited quietly for their enemies to arrive . |
| 19 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 20 | ‘ The composer came to me with the piece , which had written with me in mind , ’ says Lin . |
| 21 | Carrie 's voice came to him in the darkness . |
| 22 | ‘ A man spoke to me in the graveyard , ’ Ruth announced , as they ate at the table . |
| 23 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 24 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 25 | Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic simultaneously confirmed and exploited this inextricable connection between the sexual and the ( apparently ) non-sexual , between sexual perversion and social subversion , and does so through Wilde 's own version of that connection : ‘ what paradox was to me in the sphere of thought , perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ’ ( Wilde , De Profundis , 466 ) . |
| 26 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 27 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 28 | It is , it has been pleaded at various points throughout paragraph three in reciting the history , that at the various meetings between Peter and Mr that no advice of this nature was given and it is the plaintiff 's case that failure to give advice of this nature , even if they did not ask for it , which they did not , was a breach of the professional duty owed to them by the defendant . |
| 29 | Steve Fulton 's shot broke to him in the box , and he turned past Duffy before guiding the ball beyond Mathers . |
| 30 | The restriction has to be justified in this case as being reasonably required for the protection of the plaintiffs ' trade secrets by preventing the defendant from disclosing confidential information imparted to him by the plaintiffs in the course of his employment … |