Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greetings — ‘ with love , Father ’ and ‘ to a dear Daddy ’ — had an empty , hollow ring to them five Christmases later . |
| 2 | What a pity the kangaroo had been discovered too late for Johnson s Dictionary : Captain Cook makes the first reference to it three years earlier , in his Journal for August 1770 . |
| 3 | I made Stuart repeat the name to me several times : Squires Wine Bar . |
| 4 | It was built in 1960 and the original leather interior has been re-upholstered in a rather fetching magenta ( plum colour to you non-artistic types ) Dralon . |
| 5 | Please show some respect to us faithful readers , as this is surely a perfect example of bad business practice ! |
| 6 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 7 | He also said 43-year-old Sarfraz revealed the secrets of Pakistan 's reverse swing to him 12 years ago . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've made love to me five times , ’ she said . |
| 9 | Will the Prime Minister reconsider his answer to me two weeks ago on mortgage repossessions ? |
| 10 | He mostly spoke English to us younger ones anyway . |
| 11 | However , such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals . |
| 12 | It was a satisfaction to me many years later , when I was a member of a Royal Commission on Tribunals of Enquiry , established to advise how secrets should be dealt with , that I was able to persuade the chairman of the Commission , Lord Salmon , and through him the whole of the Commission , to recommend that there should never again be an inquiry of the Denning type , where a single individual was authorised to investigate any piece of gossip or scandal relating to any prominent public person . |