Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's heart-warming , ’ volunteered Mr Kronweiser , ‘ that justice will be done to him at last . ’ |
| 2 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 3 | Excellent as he was in GoodFellas , you could n't help thinking that the understated menace required for the role came to him like second nature . |
| 4 | ‘ Annunziata , are you all right ? ’ asked Julia when the question of dinner was settled , relieved to be able to talk to her at last with reasonable fluency . |
| 5 | ‘ Could it be the Angels , trying to talk to us at last ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ A few things have cropped up that I did n't have a chance to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Actually , ’ he said slowly , ‘ I came down here to talk to you about last night . ’ |
| 8 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 9 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 10 | The Doctor turned to her at last . |
| 11 | Because , I mean , I , I 've , I 've got three weeks holiday owing to me from last year . |
| 12 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 13 | She felt the bones give and moved away quickly , coughing now , the smoke getting to her at last . |
| 14 | It seems to me of first importance to confront this kind of question realistically and not to discredit one 's cause by refusing to admit that the clash exists . |
| 15 | Got him to agree to it at last . |
| 16 | He reads the texts that remain to us from sixth century Greece as evidence of ‘ a more thoroughgoing individual challenge to the orthodox cultural tradition … than occurred elsewhere ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 18 | She might even , he suggested , as they went to the stairs , benefit from a quiet winter with her sister to help and think what joy lay ahead with Oreste brought to her at last . |
| 19 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 20 | At the request of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I wrote to you on 25th May concerning the state of the railway embankment on Station Lane Scorton and the mess left around the railway bridge on Gubberford Lane Scorton . |
| 21 | You come to us at First National Bank for a loan . |
| 22 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |
| 23 | ‘ He will like you and he will need you for you speak English and he speaks no Italian and not even his brother will be able to speak to him at first . ’ |