Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | lt was almost the first remark he had addressed to me all evening . |
2 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
3 | It was nothing to him , of course — orders were orders — yet it had occurred to him several times that it would have been far simpler to evacuate the Shepherds than go through with all this nonsense . |
4 | Richard had talked to her all evening . |
5 | It was as if everything that had happened to her that day had some how taken place in another time dimension . |
6 | Her imagination had suggested to her that dinner in a Welsh farmhouse might comprise mutton redolent of wild herbs , or native lobster winged from the coast by landrover . |