Example sentences of "[verb] to [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , like Julian , the Prophet Muhammad said that his revelations seemed to come to him in two ways : some were clear and others were obscure and very difficult to understand . |
| 2 | The footpath passes ( on the right ) the Beroldingen castle which probably occupies the site of the earlier castle of 1530 ; attached is a chapel added to it in 1546 by Josua von Beroldingen when he was accepted into the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem . |
| 3 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd gone first , the house would have come to you with ten thousand and the rest would have gone for research into glandular diseases . ’ |
| 5 | He did his best to ignore it , failed , and reached out to the bedside table where it sat , throwing the receiver off its cradle and returning to her in one graceless motion . |
| 6 | He did n't like to think too much about one of the conversations that Jack Ashdown had reported to him on one of Joe 's occasional check-ins . |
| 7 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 8 | In a letter addressed to him in 476 or 477 , Sidonius talks of Euric restraining weapons with laws . |
| 9 | Many people can not think of playing music or listening to it until six o'clock in the evening . |
| 10 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 11 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 12 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 13 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 14 | At the sixth , 64 more transferred from Crilly ( WP ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from four other candidates , F , Cl , H and B. |
| 15 | At the eighth count he received 42 more , transferred from Egan ( PG ) , eliminated , who had had voted transferred to him from five other candidates , F , H , B , Cr and O'S . |
| 16 | At the fourteenth count , 876 more transferred from Doyle ( FG ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA and B. |
| 17 | Finally , at the fifteenth count , Q had 1,704 voted transferred to him from the surplus of McDowell ( PD ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from twelve other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S , McA , B and D. |
| 18 | At the eleventh count , 839 more transferred from Smith ( WP ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from nine other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M and R. |
| 19 | At the thirteenth count , 16 more transferred from the surplus of Brady ( FF ) , elected , who had had votes transferred to him from eleven other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R , S and McA . |
| 20 | At the fifth , 19 more transferred from Brennan ( Ind ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from three other candidates , F , Cl and H. |
| 21 | At the seventh , 72 more transferred from O'Snodaigh ( SF ) , who had had votes transferred to him from three other candidates , Cl , B and Cr . |
| 22 | At the tenth count , 104 more transferred from Ryan ( FF ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from seven other candidates . |
| 23 | At the twelfth count , 170 more transferred from McAleese ( FF ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to her from nine other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R and S. |
| 24 | At the fourth , nine more , transferred from Hyland ( Ind ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to her from two other candidates , F and Cl . |
| 25 | At the ninth count 418 more transferred from Mullarney ( GA ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to her from seven other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S and E. |
| 26 | Each term is usually given together with terms which are related to it in one of a number of ways . |
| 27 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 28 | Philip Mairet had written to me on 14 February 1937 saying that Eliot had ‘ promised ’ an article . |
| 29 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 30 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |