Example sentences of "he [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 2 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 3 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 4 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 5 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 6 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ she cried , staring horrified at him , ‘ how dare he speak to me like that ! |
| 7 | ‘ How dare he speak to me like that ? |
| 8 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 9 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 10 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 11 | " Beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . " |
| 12 | He called to her from one crowded floor to the other , ‘ Any luck ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Why did he talk to you about that anyway ? ’ demanded Ethel . |
| 14 | " Did n't he talk to you at all ? " |
| 15 | I do n't know if you want them , he said to me like that you see . |
| 16 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 17 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 18 | The point was — as he explained to me throughout that autumn and the winter that followed — to understand that habit was ritual , and ritual was habit . |