Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it interesting , however , that Maxine — or Martha — experienced no anxiety due to the nearness of the sea , even when she described to me a violent storm when giant waves lashed the walls of the seaside dwellings . |
| 2 | If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right . |
| 3 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 4 | I went into what seemed to me a Burmese restaurant . |
| 5 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 6 | What seemed to me a golden opportunity came to hand largely through Pearn 's connections with the History department in the University , to which he had now returned . |
| 7 | It seemed to me a natural thing to do . |
| 8 | The basement cattery seemed to her a sinister place , though she knew that the animals were most lovingly tended by Miss Pettigrew . |
| 9 | More likely is that she wrote down ( accurately ) the beginning , remembered the sound of the end , and linked them together in what seemed to her a possible sequence . |
| 10 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 11 | It seemed to her a happy coincidence that Robert ( she thought of him now as Robert ) should write inviting her to Yorkshire for the weekend . |
| 12 | It seemed to her a wonderful invention , making far more of a single egg than any British concoction , easily digestible , tasting rich , sweet and thoroughly sustaining . |
| 13 | It seemed to her a precious gift , far more than just an alleviation of present discomfort . |
| 14 | This courting dance seemed to them a grotesque parody . |
| 15 | The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows . |
| 16 | ‘ She seemed to us a shining light , who did a lot for Liverpool . |
| 17 | All these came together and seemed to us a clear call , which we shared with the church . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 22 | Surprisingly she knew it mattered to her a great deal . |
| 23 | It brought to him a sublime peace and contentment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |
| 28 | I then quoted to him a remarkable analysis of how drivers must use their minds . |