Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | occurred to me that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
| 12 | It occurred to me such deceptive ‘ little angels ’ would not be above nicking the odd relic if they happened to come across it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Something that occurred to me this week . |
| 16 | Her train of thought stopped right there , and she sat up suddenly , as a number of things occurred to her all at once . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | Is the list going to have a new name from Northern Ireland added to it this season ? |
| 21 | ‘ My father found another woman who appealed to him more . |
| 22 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 23 | It was said of the Curé D'Ars that he believed in those who came to him more than they believed in themselves . |
| 24 | It came to her that being bewitched was like drowning , dark and easy . |
| 25 | Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way . |
| 26 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 27 | ‘ There is one I 'd strongly tip for the future who came to me that way , though . |
| 28 | Which just came to me that moment . |
| 29 | Yes , more have came to me that 's right |
| 30 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |