Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I passed to her the wisdom I picked up eavesdropping on our two eldest sisters , whose lives were then lived in romantic turmoil . |
2 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
3 | I spoke to him the night before last , and he 's doing fine . |
4 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
5 | Course , this morning yesterday while he was at home , I said to him the bathroom radiator 's just not quite warm enough Pete can you adjust it ? |
6 | If I said to you the communication right these are the methods that this is what actually communication is . |
7 | Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur , she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy . |
8 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
9 | they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying . |
10 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
11 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
12 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |
13 | He misrepresented to her the purpose of the advance . |
14 | In 1850 he decided to mine the seam of ironstone cropping out on the Cleveland Hills east of Middlesbrough , soon erecting nine blast-furnaces for its treatment and establishing the commercial viability of Cleveland iron . |
15 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
16 | He was concerned with the sale and exchange of fiefs and the preservation of the comital domain : there is some evidence that , like the Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 in Gascony , measures intended to clarify and even reform the feudal structure of the comté were initiated under Edward I. In a letter dated 5 June 1285 Edward and Eleanor confirmed a grant by Gerard d'Abbeville , lord of Mons-Bouberc , in which he assigned to her the payment of an annual rent on his property at Abbeville . |