Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 6 | ‘ A 28-year-old girl came to me with terrible complications . |
| 7 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She thought for a moment and turned to him with flushed cheeks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His eyes clung to her like thirsty leeches , watching for any movement , the revolver trained on her back . |
| 16 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 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 | Otes , to the west of Stup and Azici , fell to them in early December . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They listened to me with profound attention , and I could see that my words went home . |
| 22 | They listened to him in stony silence — a dozen half-starved men with their womenfolk clustered behind them , infants whimpering at their skirts . |
| 23 | I listened to them with great interest . |
| 24 | Julia listened to it with professional interest , expecting the usual Nazi defence of obedience to superior orders . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They spoke no Indonesian , even less than ourselves , but talked warmly and directly to us in their tribal language as we did to them in gentle English . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | As the Devil ( feeling the final breath of his adversary leaving him ) lurched forward to seize his prize , and as the demons howled their triumph like a frenzied pack of wolves falling upon their slaughtered prey , Jesus appeared to them in terrifying power . |
| 30 | He was transporting her to another world , and she responded to him with uninhibited abandon . |