Example sentences of "he was [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first he sounded distant , as if he was calling to her from the basement of a big house , but he came nearer very quickly and suddenly he was shouting in her ear . |
| 2 | He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner . |
| 3 | Mary said : ‘ Within 20 minutes of his birth he was given to me in a blanket , still covered in blood . |
| 4 | She knew he was speaking to her as if she were either an idiot or a child but the momentary fight had quite gone and she just nodded , looking up at him . |
| 5 | She wondered why he was speaking to her in such a quiet , gentling tone , then realised how stiffly she was holding herself . |
| 6 | But what he must not pretend is that he was led to this solely by his ‘ rational doubt ’ when in fact he was led to it by his faith , that is , his humanism . |
| 7 | Hawk did not look like a soce worker or a shrink , but he was getting to her in a way the juvie officials never used to . |
| 8 | he was talking to her like seven years old . |
| 9 | but the point I 'm trying to make is that the person who made the presentation er o o on er for , for the best of riders , I think he 's rather missed the point because he was talking to you about the , including , more information on er within the T V P and we did discuss , er we did like to make it quite clear during our er discussions that riding of horses on the highway is a matter for the T V P , riding horses on bridleways is a matter that we will have to deal with in basic in time . |
| 10 | If anyone from the group here met Kemp at 3 p.m. , it was n't Downes , because nine or ten of you here will willingly testify to the incontrovertible fact that he was talking to you from that time onwards . |
| 11 | He was drawn to it in some weirdly obsessive , almost dangerous way . |
| 12 | A rough-coated collie called Tip , he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip . |
| 13 | He was introduced to it as a game played in the garden before coming north from Devon in 1970 . |
| 14 | He was driven to it by the logic of interest and events . |
| 15 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |