Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 2 | This year the IRA has killed two people in Belfast compared to none the previous year . |
| 3 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 4 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 5 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 6 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 7 | He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing . |
| 8 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 11 | An argument at Formby 's works between a boy , John Carter , and a horse driver led to what the local paper called " A brutal attack upon the boy " . |
| 12 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , Martha 's mother , Susan Sowerby , spoke to me the other day . |
| 14 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 15 | She tried to get , she 's tried to get started making , doing her own business , spoke to her the other day and she 's , well , Pat spoke to her on Sunday and she got more out of her than I did |
| 16 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |
| 17 | What someone said to me the other night is that you 've got 75% of it and that 's good . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 20 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 21 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 22 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 23 | I went rubbish cos he came and said to me the other day oh so how are you enjoying your first term |
| 24 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |
| 25 | you said to him the other night . |
| 26 | I said to him the other day , well four weeks ago . |
| 27 | Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan ? |
| 28 | I said to him the other morning I said do that again I said look , I 'll get you out of bed . |
| 29 | He said to us the other day , ‘ This little country is the key . |
| 30 | he 's , he 's like this , he 's got to get on , get everything done , that 's what I said to you the other day , leave |