Example sentences of "to [pers pn] that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that my personal disaster was so great that hitherto I had not allowed myself to understand it . |
| 3 | No , no I ca n't I just ca n't eat so I 'm not forcing myself to eat , what I 'm trying to do is only to eat the right things and I must start vitamin supplements I think I 've got the age when I probably need that , I mean , this cold is a warning to me that my immune system is not as strong as it ought to be , I should n't have had another cold so soon after getting rid of one ! |
| 4 | mhm It just occurred to me that our Civil Service , in its higher reaches , is also notoriously recruited very largely from the ranks of people who studied Latin and Greek at universities . |
| 5 | So it seems to me that the existence of death , the fact that organisms do n't live forever , and they certainly are not perfected in terms of personal fitness or survivability , because they get diseases and they die suggests to me that our modern insight into evolution acting on individual genes is , is correct . |
| 6 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 7 | ‘ I swear to you that your honourable gambling partner is going to restore those farms to this estate . |
| 8 | As he pulled the car off the highway into the gas station forecourt , it occurred to him that his only chance now would be if the pump attendant noticed something amiss and called the police after they 'd gone . |
| 9 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 10 | We now have to alter the old consequences and make it quite clear to him that his bad behaviour will have results that are not only not rewarding , but also unpleasant enough to make him relinquish his tantrum . |
| 11 | It was only in the continuing silence that it came to her that her defenceless back was presented to the rest of the room . |
| 12 | It came as a blow to her that her eldest sister , Audrey , and brother , Max , had sold off many of their mother 's belongings without so much as a by-your-leave . |
| 13 | MY compliments to the recent local government election candidates , successful or otherwise , and will they now see to it that their earnest phizzogs are removed forthwith from all neighbourhood telegraph poles , lamp standards and walls . |
| 14 | He had seen to it that his spare flesh should not go soft with time , or lose its springy vigour ; but the years had revenged themselves as best they could . |
| 15 | Unless we were adding value to the constituent parts of the group it seemed to us that our plain duty would be to break the group into smaller constituent parts and hand them back to the shareholders . |
| 16 | Does it never occur to us that our lone position in this respect , over long years , may be the common factor in the long story of our economic decline ? |