Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 5 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 6 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 15 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 16 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
| 17 | As for Mr Berkley , the conversation seemed to him like the macabre chorus of some drama in which he was eventually to appear , by some unexpected twist of the plot , as the despicable villain . |
| 18 | She was not surprised when the girl turned to her with the dark remark , ‘ I wish he had n't come in just then . ’ |
| 19 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 20 | Soon he was taken away : a uniformed guard simply beckoned to him through the half-open door . |
| 21 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 22 | He talked to us about the new country , about snow , about the huge city , and we all wanted to know more , to see what it was like . |
| 23 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 24 | He took to it like the proverbial fish to water . |
| 25 | Initially the townspeople were sceptical , but once the new water had tickled their tastebuds they took to it like the proverbial duck . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the afternoon Bathsheba called her workers together , and spoke to them in the old hall of the farmhouse . |
| 28 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 29 | He spoke to her outside the social services and pleaded with her to come home . |
| 30 | A NURSE charged with murdering four children had shown no emotion when colleagues spoke to her about the mysterious string of collapses suffered by child patients on the ward where she worked , a court heard yesterday . |