Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 4 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 5 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 6 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 11 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 16 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , Martha 's mother , Susan Sowerby , spoke to me the other day . |
| 18 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | What someone said to me the other night is that you 've got 75% of it and that 's good . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 24 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 27 | I went rubbish cos he came and said to me the other day oh so how are you enjoying your first term |
| 28 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |
| 29 | you said to him the other night . |
| 30 | I said to him the other day , well four weeks ago . |