Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further . |
| 2 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you seriously telling me that you thought I proposed to you this morning ? |
| 4 | Prices of appellation d'origine controlee wines rose to what some would say were over-ambitious levels but lack of demand has forced them down again by a tenth or more in Britain with even bigger discounts available in French supermarkets . |
| 5 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |
| 6 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 7 | Keith shouted to his own man . |
| 8 | In fact , the first one in America belonged to the famous blind teacher Helen Keller , who referred to her own as ‘ an angel in fur ’ . |
| 9 | She referred to her own family : parents , brother and sisters who all spoke English at home . |
| 10 | With uncanny certainty , Theda knew that Lady Merchiston referred to her own words . |
| 11 | I 'd just make the simple point that a sudden twelve point five percent reduction , I referred to it this morning , er in in building , is not progressively and long term , it 's a sudden change . |
| 12 | At the bridge Moran and Rose changed to their own small blue car and the uncle drove the children home . |
| 13 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 14 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 15 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 16 | occurred to me that . |
| 17 | On our last night in Vorarlberg , watching nine-month-old Elisabeth crawling round the dining room and finding a welcome at every table , it occurred to me that , right from babyhood , children instinctively know whether they 're welcome . |
| 18 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
| 19 | It occurred to me such deceptive ‘ little angels ’ would not be above nicking the odd relic if they happened to come across it . |
| 20 | The following day , while flogging up Beinn Tulaichean , it occurred to me this is a scheme capable of considerable development , and a National Munro Exchange could be set up — computerised of course . |
| 21 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 22 | Something that occurred to me this week . |
| 23 | Her train of thought stopped right there , and she sat up suddenly , as a number of things occurred to her all at once . |
| 24 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 25 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 26 | Such generosity of spirit , added to their many talents , made the Fawcett family the most popular in Baldersdale . |
| 27 | In fact , you know I 'm consciously now not to become a Welsh accent because if I 've got the Welsh accent added to it all it 'll be horrendous ! |
| 28 | Is the list going to have a new name from Northern Ireland added to it this season ? |
| 29 | , Alfred Reginald ( 1881–1955 ) , social anthropologist , was born 17 January 1881 in Birmingham , the second son of Alfred Brown and his wife Hannah , whose maiden name , Radcliffe , he added to his own by deed poll in 1926 . |
| 30 | Mulroney added to his own discomfort by admitting that he had deliberately waited until the last moment before calling a conference of Premiers , in an effort to increase the pressure upon the dissenting provincial leaders . |