Example sentences of "[adv] [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	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 .
3	Which just came to me that moment .
4	‘ I left Rhydoldog for ever ’ , Laura was to write later , ‘ on an early April day when the wild daffodils were smothering the banks of the old water garden and thousands more nodded to me all the way down the lovely driveway to say farewell . ’
5	An American once said to me that British Midland 's habit of giving out boiled sweets before take off was a ‘ quaint gesture ’ .
6	A better balance than elsewhere between industry and agriculture was the advantage she derived from slower industrial growth ; she also owed to it some of her resilience and powers of recovery after two world wars .
7	She hardly even spoke to him these days .
8	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 .
9	It sometimes seemed to me that animal rights must always prevail over every other claim , however strong , including claims from the environment .
10	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 .

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