Example sentences of "to [pron] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so . |
| 2 | Retracing his footsteps to the little village of Souilly that lay astride the main Barle-Due/Verdun road , Pétain was met by de Castelnau , to whom he relayed the dire tidings about Douaumont . |
| 3 | Philip Miller much respected Hugh Percy ( 1715–1786 ) the second Earl , and later first Duke , of Northumberland , to whom he dedicated the sixth , seventh and eighth editions of the Dictionary , referring to many improvements to his estates and particularly to his plantations in ‘ a Country almost destitute of Timber ’ . |
| 4 | There was a cousin Dilwyn from whom he became inseparable ( they even shared a pair of roller skates ) and to whom he gave the greatest tribute of affection by constantly getting him into trouble . |
| 5 | In 1893 he bought Cliveden House , to which he added the entire balustrade of the Villa Borghese . |
| 6 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 7 | She was exquisite , even in a shabby dark gown , and as she came up to him he saw the luminous eyes filled with what he most wanted to see . |