Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to talk to me a job , but we sort of joked away . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 3 | She 'd explained to me the origin of the Paisley pattern ; I had the history of Notting Hill Gate , the use of a camera obscura by Vermeer , why Charles Lamb 's sister murdered their mother , and a history of Tamla Motown . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 5 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 7 | Davide ran his finger over the knubbled ear , and it began to seem to him a charm to bring good luck , prosperity , the ease he hoped to find , if only he could leave for America . |
| 8 | The deputy headmaster arrived on the scene and the headmaster proceeded to explain to him the cause of the fuss : |
| 9 | It needed all the pride she possessed to turn to him a moment later , ashen-faced but in control . |
| 10 | Speaking of young men , erm I have a letter here from Mr John who is our local M P , who is not able to be with us today , but erm he in fact would not of , I think , been born at that stage , but erm he did write to me a little letter I 've got this morning from the House of Commons in London and he asked me to read it out . |
| 11 | See if you can remember because we did we did talk to you a very short time about this on Monday . |
| 12 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |
| 13 | ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted . |
| 14 | The task of organizing her grandmother 's funeral had fallen to her a couple of years before and , although the present situation was bound to be more complicated , she had a fair idea of the steps Veronica would need to take . |
| 15 | Mafouz , a tiny , pale , Egyptian boy , had said to him a week or so ago , ‘ Sir — I am not allowed television . |
| 16 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 17 | He had written to me every week when he could , and I was longing to see him again . |
| 18 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 19 | But she did let slip that she had to curtsey to her every day and say : ‘ Good morning Your Highness . ’ |
| 20 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 21 | It had seemed to him a natural extension of his duties , and somehow consistent with Islamic notions of hospitality , to assume responsibility for seeing that Owen was properly supplied with coffee . |
| 22 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 23 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 24 | The future , which once had seemed to her a long , grassy vista into distant sunlight , was now a black impenetrable vapour , blowing towards her menacingly , like some poisonous gas , and threatening to envelop her . |
| 25 | Only a prisoner and the nurse had spoken to me the night before I cut myself . |
| 26 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 27 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |
| 28 | I had to convey to her a slight warning , though … ’ |
| 29 | They travelled extensively , but he had to pander to her every whim . |
| 30 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |