Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 2 | " I did n't know him — I only spoke to him for a few minutes , but David Fairfax recognised him . " |
| 3 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 4 | Mabel looked astonished ; any event in her life , no matter how mundane , always came to her as a great surprise . |
| 5 | It was n't what usually happened to him after a performance . |
| 6 | He knows full well that we are not related , though he once waved to me from a passing train . |
| 7 | He always looked to her like an infant who had grown bigger and bigger and then stopped growing without changing much . |
| 8 | ‘ My youngest daughter once spoke to me in a totally different voice . |
| 9 | He also referred to her as a ‘ slapper ’ and a ‘ tart ’ . |
| 10 | The major attention then was focused on Vietnam and there were very few people covering Cambodia , which also appealed to me as a journalist . ’ |
| 11 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 12 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 13 | Following Bono 's unsuccessful attempts to speak to George Bush at the White House during the ‘ Zoo TV ’ tour , Clinton sent a letter to the band offering his services and later spoke to them on a live radio phone-in . |
| 14 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 15 | ‘ We often spoke to her on the telephone , ’ said Mrs Over . |
| 16 | And Lenin , who had talked only at party meetings , before audiences of Marxist students , who had hardly appeared in public in 1905 , now spoke to them with a voice of authority that was to pick up all their undirected energy , to command their uncertain confidence , and to swell suddenly to a world-wide resonance . |
| 17 | Soon he was taken away : a uniformed guard simply beckoned to him through the half-open door . |
| 18 | When he initially came to me with the novel , I thought , ‘ Victor 's a Rasta , it 's going to be something about Haile Selassie . ’ |
| 19 | I then explained to her about the attack on Toby . |
| 20 | We kissed goodnight , and I again apologised to her for the fright she had . |
| 21 | It never occurred to me for a moment that she had planned it all in cold blood . ’ |
| 22 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 23 | It never occurred to her until the Sunday evening that it might have been herself . |
| 24 | And we had to laugh , he said , well can you be ill a bit longer because he , er , he cooked her something to eat and he feeds her and so when I rang up I never got her on th , I never spoke to her for a week ! |