Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill-educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder . |
| 32 | But this poem seemed to us incontrovertible proof of our poetic twinship . |
| 33 | And er I mean it was all luck everything that sort of happened to me that night anyway I mean it it was n't so lucky for other people but I suppose most survivors have their their tale or so . |
| 34 | ‘ There 's not a man or woman here who does n't know what happened to me one night ten years ago ! |
| 35 | I 'll tell you what happened to me seven months ago . |
| 36 | That 's what happened to me old man in the cleaning business , I mean with you could write your own cheque virtually , but they , they had sort of like a three year , three year back log on painting , they just did n't pay anybody . |
| 37 | Hi , my name is Amy , something very strange happened to me last night . |
| 38 | ‘ Did I tell you what happened to me last week . |
| 39 | It happened to me last week . ’ |
| 40 | All the fish in the country will have to run for cover after what happened to me this week ! |
| 41 | ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ? |
| 42 | A strange thing happened to me this morning . |
| 43 | Glenn Hoddle says they they do n't do things easily … they were the best footballing side on the day and its justice for what happened to them three years ago |
| 44 | What happened to him that year is typical of what has often happened at Ferrari : questions of detail . |
| 45 | ’ Did you hear what happened to him this morning ? |
| 46 | Do you know what happened to us last night ? ’ |
| 47 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 48 | This happened to you some way or other ? |
| 49 | ‘ Tell me later what really happened to you last night . |
| 50 | ‘ I have had a bit of an accident and the car you rented to me this morning is now a burnt out shell ! ’ |
| 51 | Another door opened to me last year when my daughter presented me with a gorgeous grandson , Simon , the same daughter who was instrumental in my first joining the Brownie Pack so many years ago ! |
| 52 | She administered to him some wine diluted in water . |
| 53 | Oh , and we 're backdating the warning to cover the stuff you returned to him last week . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Gog talked to me this morning , ’ she said . |
| 55 | He chatted to them all evening , then went home and fell asleep . |
| 56 | But as a first-half Merson free kick ricocheted to him eight yards from goal he miscued . |
| 57 | I can not make myself write down the things that Jekyll , with tears in his eyes , confessed to me that night . |
| 58 | Elspeth whispered to her one night in their room that that 's where you go to buy babies . |
| 59 | Well he whispered to me last night , you know , then of course Laura told me everything cos she was there |
| 60 | ‘ I love it when you do that … ’ she whispered to him one day as they made love , and he laughed softly , looking down at her , such warmth in his face that her heart stopped and her smile faded . |