Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I passed to her the wisdom I picked up eavesdropping on our two eldest sisters , whose lives were then lived in romantic turmoil . |
| 2 | ‘ In fact , the more I talked to him the more I felt he was not being detached about what he was saying and certainly not professional . ’ |
| 3 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 4 | I spoke to him the night before last , and he 's doing fine . |
| 5 | Even Terry Lewis hinted at it when I spoke to him the other evening . |
| 6 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 7 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 8 | I said to him the other day , well four weeks ago . |
| 9 | I said to him the other morning I said do that again I said look , I 'll get you out of bed . |
| 10 | Course , this morning yesterday while he was at home , I said to him the bathroom radiator 's just not quite warm enough Pete can you adjust it ? |
| 11 | If I said to you the communication right these are the methods that this is what actually communication is . |
| 12 | he 's , he 's like this , he 's got to get on , get everything done , that 's what I said to you the other day , leave |
| 13 | What someone said to me the other night is that you 've got 75% of it and that 's good . |
| 14 | Here is the verse and chorus which appealed to me the most . |
| 15 | The hostility of the army to the republic increased with the Catalan autonomy statute which represented to them the breaking up of the Spanish nation and a threat to national pride . |
| 16 | Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur , she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy . |
| 17 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |
| 18 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 19 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
| 20 | Consequently , all visitors entering the Exhibition Room on Survey days were approached by a member of the Library 's staff who outlined to them the object of the exercise and invited them to complete a questionnaire . |
| 21 | they go on about Shakespeare and Chauce Chaucer but if you spoke to them the way Chaucer used to speak they would n't understand a word you were saying . |
| 22 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 23 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 24 | you said to him the other night . |
| 25 | Cos we said to him the other day how much is so and so Jonathan ? |
| 26 | When Robert II of Flanders passed Christmas at St Omer , ‘ there came to him the dukes , the counts , the lords of many regions , nobles and knights from the whole of Flanders , and many French bishops ’ . |
| 27 | We are told that the hermit was once sitting alone in his cell after dinner when there came to him the lady of the house … and many persons with her , and found him writing rapidly . |
| 28 | The giant ignored this and killed all the children , at which moment there appeared to him the ghosts of Gunda and Wolfhead . |
| 29 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 30 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |