Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 2 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 3 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 4 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 5 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 6 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 7 | An ambitious reclamation scheme on the south coast also came to nothing around this time . |
| 8 | And if somebody came to you with those sorts of things , you 'd think to yourself , it ca n't just go on , and gradually just build up and build up . |
| 9 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 10 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 11 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 12 | The great boulevards led to him from all directions , bringing the homage of a loyal and overawed population — who could assemble in the oval-shaped square thoughtfully provided for a quarter of a million of them . |
| 13 | A deep lump seemed to fill Laura'a throat as the little blonde girls clung to her for some minutes . |
| 14 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 15 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 16 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 17 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 18 | On the latter point the King felt the same confidence , although less reluctantly , and reacted to it with some lack of consideration by more or less commanding Baldwin not to leave the country for his annual expedition to Aix . |
| 19 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 20 | I thought that , and I 'm not an expert in but I thought this was a penetrating critique and all goes well for how the department is handling in a very difficult starting situation , a most important matter but there is Mr spoke to me about this paper and er I think we will have to hear what Mr had to say , I do n't know who 's going to report that . |
| 21 | One young teacher working in a more conservative college spoke to me of this period with some amusement . |
| 22 | After this she began to hear strange sounds and melodies ‘ that she could not well hear what a man said to her at that time , unless he spoke the louder . |
| 23 | I said to her about that phone call did n't I ? |
| 24 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 25 | But they said to us on that night ‘ unless we have the full £150,000 for the seven performances we 've done and the eighth which we are about to do we wo n't go on . ’ |
| 26 | And they sent back and now this is what they said to us in this letter I remember this distinctly that er if we want you to come out we 'll tell you but we regard your factories as our second line of defence . |
| 27 | That 's what it is Martin , confirmation really of what er Mick said to you in that interview , Steve , Tommy two , three but playing at central defence , Dean 'll be the skipper playing in midfield , Michael at the heart of the defence , Phil in midfield , Paul wears seven but will play up front , er Mark at eight in midfield , wears nine , well that 's a bit of nonsense is n't i in terms of numbering , cos he 's gon na play at left back not at centre forward , Gary is ten , Tony eleven , then on the bench , really good to see David and Rod , Bob 's there as well along with er Paul and that 's er possibly a a first chance for the youngster there , and Michael who has been bloodied already but er a little bit of experience in and er the youngsters , and as I say again it 's really good to see and in the number and er I 'm still practising and I shall give you the Pisa team when you return to the er rather sodden Lane with the spectators all huddled towards the back of the stands to get er extra protection from the er rain that 's being swept a on to the stands and er has obliterated the markings on the pitch . |
| 28 | Elizabeth wrote to me at this time . |
| 29 | The point was — as he explained to me throughout that autumn and the winter that followed — to understand that habit was ritual , and ritual was habit . |