Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most fish would not be seriously affected by temperatures somewhat outside this range especially if only exposed to them for a short time . |
| 2 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 3 | Had he not , through the magnetic influence he was able to exert even over those of his own race , personally seen to it at the Peace Conference that these Arabs were not sent unrewarded away ? |
| 4 | Hayling was also in charge of media initiatives , so Lowe naturally turned to him with the newspaper they had so often discussed as comrades in Big Flame . |
| 5 | It 's only lent to me for a week |
| 6 | The booming surf far below called to her like the beat of a jungle drum . |
| 7 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 8 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 9 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 10 | Information is only appended to them in the form of agreement comments during their various states . |
| 11 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 12 | In fact Waugh had just written to him as a stranger to thank him for his ‘ ingenious and delightful allegory ’ — his gratitude all the warmer because , as he flatteringly remarks , he had tried to buy a copy and found it sold out . |
| 13 | If you have any of the conditions listed , your doctor may have already spoken to you about the importance of healthy eating , and a healthy lifestyle . |
| 14 | There 's one other area that 's just sprung to me about the trainee and their actual ability . |
| 15 | Our metabolic differences were once explained to us by a Dyak companion in Borneo as due to the fact that I belong to the tribe of gibbons , whereas Lorne belongs more to that of the orangutan . |
| 16 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |
| 17 | There on the television monitors was a body lying alone in the middle of the track with his seat still strapped to him like a pilot 's parachute pack . |
| 18 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 19 | A remark which someone had once made to me about a man who had gone mad in the camp came clearly out of the darkness : |
| 20 | The thought had hardly occurred to me before the diver , with a weird-sounding cry , left the water in a noisy take-off , and flew seawards in alarm . |
| 21 | It was an extension — or so I thought — of the tact she had always shown to me as a child that she did n't impose . |
| 22 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |
| 23 | They were the only words ever spoken to me as a player that could remotely be termed coaching … nobody realized that a young player needed reassurance . ’ |
| 24 | Thus it was that , as I was wheeled perspiring into the editor 's office , that the first words ever spoken to me by an NME bigwig will remain with me for the rest of my life . |
| 25 | Have you ever spoken to her about the problem ? ’ |
| 26 | Indigenous groups gained three seats in the Senate — two specially allotted to them under the new constitution and one elected . |
| 27 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 28 | and maybe like read to them at the end of the day or whatever . |
| 29 | As slim as a reed and as shy as a bird with the eyes of a gazelle , were all the aspects of beauty once described to me by the Youngest Son as most desirable in a woman . |
| 30 | Faye could not paint or draw while lying in bed , but in the mornings Belinda usually read to her for an hour while she rested her eyes , then left her alone for the remainder of the morning to rest or scribble ideas for future painting projects . |