Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 2 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 3 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 4 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The attempt in the Treaty to reorganize the Balkans as a stable structure of national states appealed to them for this reason . |
| 7 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 8 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 9 | Excellent as he was in GoodFellas , you could n't help thinking that the understated menace required for the role came to him like second nature . |
| 10 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 11 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 12 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 13 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 14 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 17 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 18 | Perkin on her other side was saying contritely , ‘ Sorry , darling , sorry , ’ and she turned to him with ever-ready forgiveness , the adult of the pair . |
| 19 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |
| 20 | Unaware that they were being treated to a rhetoric bath , foreign reporters demanded a translation , whereupon Mohamed Salam , a Lebanese AP staffer , turned to them with grim cynicism . |
| 21 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 22 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 23 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 24 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 25 | They listened to me with profound attention , and I could see that my words went home . |
| 26 | They listened to him in stony silence — a dozen half-starved men with their womenfolk clustered behind them , infants whimpering at their skirts . |
| 27 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 28 | Julia listened to it with professional interest , expecting the usual Nazi defence of obedience to superior orders . |
| 29 | I listened to it with great interest , and er , I thought again that the County Council was lead role was modestly but quite accurately described in that , fairly lengthy er , interview . |
| 30 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |