Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Was n't that what had attracted her to him in the first place ? |
2 | She 'd been very positive about that , not just here in the car , but she had said it to me in the bedroom while I was packing her things and she was still in a mentally uninhibited state . |
3 | The lines of experience were marked on her face and although she still had all the exuberant charm which had drawn him to her in the first place , he thought she looked older than he knew her to be . |
4 | It was those very firebrand qualities of ruthless daring , initiative and enterprise which had drawn her to him in the first place . |
5 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
6 | No , he 'd have given it to her at the hospital . |
7 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
8 | He did n't remember being given that form ; they had probably not even given it to him in the first place . |
9 | The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev . |
10 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
11 | ‘ You know everyone , ’ said Brian , indicating Constance , who had beaten them to it into the drawing-room . |
12 | He had mentioned it to her at the party . |