Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 2 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 3 | ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago . |
| 4 | I said to him the other day , well four weeks ago . |
| 5 | I said to him the other morning I said do that again I said look , I 'll get you out of bed . |
| 6 | he 's , he 's like this , he 's got to get on , get everything done , that 's what I said to you the other day , leave |
| 7 | I wrote to him every few days and gave him the details of everything that happened and everyone I met . |
| 8 | I found it interesting , however , that Maxine — or Martha — experienced no anxiety due to the nearness of the sea , even when she described to me a violent storm when giant waves lashed the walls of the seaside dwellings . |
| 9 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 10 | ‘ She seemed to us a shining light , who did a lot for Liverpool . |
| 11 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 12 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 13 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 14 | She quoted to me an odd and illuminating point , that if he wanted to take a bath when he was with friends , he could not see why they should not all be in the bath together , boys and girls , black and white . |
| 15 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |
| 16 | you said to him the other night . |
| 17 | Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan ? |
| 18 | More than anything , it revealed to her a suppressed but undeniable respect for Damian , and she hated knowing she respected him . |
| 19 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 20 | A friend of mine came to you a few months back . |
| 21 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 22 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 23 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 24 | It seemed to me a natural thing to do . |
| 25 | It seemed to her a happy coincidence that Robert ( she thought of him now as Robert ) should write inviting her to Yorkshire for the weekend . |
| 26 | It seemed to her a wonderful invention , making far more of a single egg than any British concoction , easily digestible , tasting rich , sweet and thoroughly sustaining . |
| 27 | It seemed to her a precious gift , far more than just an alleviation of present discomfort . |
| 28 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 29 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 30 | It brought to him a sublime peace and contentment . |