Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll be a way to acknowledge the end of an era as well as to acknowledge the people who contributed to it over the last 20 years . |
| 2 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 7 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 8 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 9 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 10 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 11 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 12 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Voices from the breakfast table came to her through the open window . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A moist breath of autumn and ripeness came to them through the open window . |
| 22 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 23 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 24 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 27 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 28 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 29 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 30 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |