Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 6 | The key to it is with Simon Makallah , who lied to us on three occasions . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | Gandhi wrote to him on 14 February and asked for an interview . |
| 11 | The council considered his objections by way of an informal internal appeal procedure , but wrote to him on 27 November 1991 in these terms : |
| 12 | Back home , I wrote to him on 4 July , enclosing a shortish essay which the comparative leisure afforded by leaving Oxford had made possible . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |