Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All these came together and seemed to us a clear call , which we shared with the church . |
| 32 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 33 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 34 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 35 | Loch Ranza opened to us a complete change of scene : there were houses , a church , an inn , and even the old castle was allowed to retain its site , and guide the fishers in their homeward course . |
| 36 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 37 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 38 | Norman Bowler witnessed the vagaries of Minton 's existence at this time , but the older man also revealed to him a tender side which his performance in public obscured . |
| 39 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 40 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 41 | Surprisingly she knew it mattered to her a great deal . |
| 42 | It brought to him a sublime peace and contentment . |
| 43 | The work is enormous — comparisons with the second piano concerto are entirely justified , as familiar melodic and rhythmical thematic material pounds in the ears — and Conway and Evans brought to it a satisfying feel of sonority and stature . |
| 44 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 45 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 46 | ‘ Yes , Martha 's mother , Susan Sowerby , spoke to me the other day . |
| 47 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 48 | She tried to get , she 's tried to get started making , doing her own business , spoke to her the other day and she 's , well , Pat spoke to her on Sunday and she got more out of her than I did |
| 49 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |
| 50 | If ‘ fascism ’ appeared to them an appropriate name for their enemy , then perhaps comfortable historians half-a-century later should hesitate before declaring them wrong . |
| 51 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |
| 52 | They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful . |
| 53 | What someone said to me the other night is that you 've got 75% of it and that 's good . |
| 54 | but the actual extract as , as Cath said to me the other day , you know she felt sure and I said to her you know in a full length film they could 've actually chosen a better moment |
| 55 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 56 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 57 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 58 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 59 | I went rubbish cos he came and said to me the other day oh so how are you enjoying your first term |
| 60 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |