Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 2 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 3 | The lack of attention devoted to it by the British Government and , in particular , by the British press , in terms of the discussions at Maastricht , is symptomatic of our isolationist approach not only to Europe , but to the development of regional policy . |
| 4 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 5 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 6 | I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard . |
| 7 | Robert Savage referred to it as a box-iron piece , a piece of land roughly the shape of an old fashioned box-iron used for smoothing linen ; and he related that the old ploughmen used to refer to the ploughing of this type of field as goring work . |
| 8 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 9 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 10 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 11 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 12 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 13 | It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy . |
| 14 | The coy attitude with which the Press still view this and other sexual matters is illustrated by the experience recounted to me by a well-known columnist . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 17 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 18 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 21 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 22 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 23 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 24 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 25 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 26 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 27 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 28 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 29 | A picture came to her of the shaggy wanderers huddling together in the bus shelter at the top of the road where she had been born and bred . |
| 30 | Mabel looked astonished ; any event in her life , no matter how mundane , always came to her as a great surprise . |