Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 2 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 3 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 7 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 8 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 9 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 10 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 11 | Hitler reminded his audience of his grim ‘ prophecy ’ for the first time in his Reichstag speech on 30 January 1941 , and in 1942 returned to it in no fewer than four major addresses , on 30 January , 24 February , 30 September , and 8 November , as well as hinting at the destruction of the Jews in the war in his ‘ New Year Appeal ’ . |
| 12 | Angus talked to them in a strange tongue . |
| 13 | And it illumines too the politics of personal relations : the vital fabric of social life that exists in the silence between people — exactly that space which is filled by music : ‘ As the person talked to me in a conventional conversation , I knew , I heard that , inside himself , the person perhaps wept . ’ |
| 14 | If this was a challenge the American film industry reacted to it in a determined and ultimately triumphant way . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , it all rather depends , ’ she put to him in a wry tone , ‘ on the outcome of our visit to the police station . |
| 16 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 17 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 18 | Have we always seen such change and uncertainty and responded to it in the same way ? |
| 19 | Once I showed it to a psychical research woman who , after careful study of the plan of Versailles , said to me in a tense voice : ‘ You realize that the two ladies went bodily through a brick wall ? ’ |
| 20 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't think he 's on our wavelength , ’ his mother said to him in a choking voice . |
| 22 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |