Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The QDMs passed to you by the DF operator are now your track to the station . |
| 2 | Newman referred to himself at the time as a ‘ benevolent despot ’ . |
| 3 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 4 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 5 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 6 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 7 | What time is Lucy coming to you by the way Terry ? |
| 8 | Angus talked to them in a strange tongue . |
| 9 | He seemed to love her as fiercely as he had once loved Ryan , Shiona thought to herself with a little inner shiver . |
| 10 | Shiona smiled to herself with an uneasy kind of pleasure . |
| 11 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 12 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And for the sake of the greater justice , ’ Yeremi murmured to himself as a personal amen . |
| 14 | Lenin referred to them as a ‘ separate social stratum ’ , at least until the highest stage of development had been reached . |
| 15 | IBM came to them with the notion , the firm says . |
| 16 | Reid Livesey turned to him with a smile . |
| 17 | He did not hear Lissa calling to him across the haze that separated them , and he would not come to her . |
| 18 | ‘ It does n't apply , ’ Kingsley Amis remarked to himself as an adolescent Marxist on joining the army during the war and glancing around the barracks at his new comrades . |
| 19 | If the Dwarf Rasbora grew to something like the size of the Scissortail it would be a traffic-stopper . |
| 20 | Eva took to it like a duck to water . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ My wife does n't want you hanging around her like a pet dog , ’ Nahum said to him after the service one Sunday morning . |
| 23 | When the red light went out after my closing announcement , Mr Murray turned to me with a broad grin ‘ Was that all right ? ’ he asked , and I shook his hand acknowledging his ad-lib masterpiece . |
| 24 | Fernando turned to her from the fridge where he was taking out a bottle of wine . |
| 25 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 26 | Donald Crubach played to him by the hour . |
| 27 | Faye turned to her on a suppressed sigh . |
| 28 | Worse , I could see clearly the image of Mala clinging to him within the circle of the powerful golden arm . |
| 29 | Googol talked to himself in a muffled manner or merely droned — hard to say which — whenever he was in space . |
| 30 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |