Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 3 | The second section , " Hiroshima 1945–1979 " , is a set of portraits of contributors to " Genboku no ko " ( Children of the Atomic Bombing ) , 186 accounts by children of what happened to them on 6 August 1945 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The key to it is with Simon Makallah , who lied to us on three occasions . ’ |
| 6 | Buttoning the long fitted jacket over her expensive cream gown , she went to him on determined footsteps . |
| 7 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 10 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 11 | Gandhi wrote to him on 14 February and asked for an interview . |
| 12 | The council considered his objections by way of an informal internal appeal procedure , but wrote to him on 27 November 1991 in these terms : |
| 13 | Back home , I wrote to him on 4 July , enclosing a shortish essay which the comparative leisure afforded by leaving Oxford had made possible . |
| 14 | I last wrote to you on 14 February , enclosing a copy of the Prospectus and two copies of the Agreement for the tape , the latter for signature on behalf of the University of Birmingham before being returned to me . |
| 15 | At the request of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I wrote to you on 25th May concerning the state of the railway embankment on Station Lane Scorton and the mess left around the railway bridge on Gubberford Lane Scorton . |
| 16 | Simon Murison-Bowie wrote to you on 22 December last year asking you to let us know the operating system and machine you would run the tape on , and the tape density you would need , so that we could arrange for a copy to be prepared for you . |