Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] to [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 2 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 3 | Loch Ranza opened to us a complete change of scene : there were houses , a church , an inn , and even the old castle was allowed to retain its site , and guide the fishers in their homeward course . |
| 4 | To the day of his death on the guillotine in January 1793 France remained to him an unknown land . |
| 5 | but the actual extract as , as Cath said to me the other day , you know she felt sure and I said to her you know in a full length film they could 've actually chosen a better moment |
| 6 | Strange as it may now seem , the primacy of Canterbury seemed to him an immovable feature which guaranteed the firmness of the whole structure . |
| 7 | The work is enormous — comparisons with the second piano concerto are entirely justified , as familiar melodic and rhythmical thematic material pounds in the ears — and Conway and Evans brought to it a satisfying feel of sonority and stature . |