Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We always referred to them as those ladies of the stage . |
| 2 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 3 | ‘ A 28-year-old girl came to me with terrible complications . |
| 4 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 5 | And if somebody came to you with those sorts of things , you 'd think to yourself , it ca n't just go on , and gradually just build up and build up . |
| 6 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 7 | After 1980 it was possible for charities to reclaim tax paid on money covenanted to them for four years or more , not just at the standard rate of tax , but at the higher rate if individuals paid tax at the higher rate . |
| 8 | What happens further to small mammal bone before it is buried and fossilized depends in part on what happened to it at earlier stages in the transition from living animal to fossil ( Fig. 1.2 ) . |
| 9 | She thought for a moment and turned to him with flushed cheeks . |
| 10 | The key to it is with Simon Makallah , who lied to us on three occasions . ’ |
| 11 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 12 | Most of the rainforests belong to developing countries which have to resort to milking their most precious resource to make ends meet , and to pay back money lent to them by Western countries . |
| 13 | The great boulevards led to him from all directions , bringing the homage of a loyal and overawed population — who could assemble in the oval-shaped square thoughtfully provided for a quarter of a million of them . |
| 14 | A deep lump seemed to fill Laura'a throat as the little blonde girls clung to her for some minutes . |
| 15 | His eyes clung to her like thirsty leeches , watching for any movement , the revolver trained on her back . |
| 16 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 17 | Buttoning the long fitted jacket over her expensive cream gown , she went to him on determined footsteps . |
| 18 | The lack of good results is here explained by faulty equipment ( an explanation also offered to me by other students ) ; however , students gain higher marks for lab work if the results are ‘ correct ’ than if they are wrong but adequately accounted for : |
| 19 | This concept of a community or culture struggling for its existence is not something attributed to it by academic observers , but one expressed in the community 's actions and statements . |
| 20 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 21 | And then , in the following year , prompted by his frequent descriptions of his own loneliness — his fear of becoming ill , his dislike of attending receptions alone — she again wrote to him in similar terms . |