Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her punishment for wanting that English Protestant , my father , who proposed to her by telegram . |
| 2 | ‘ I think I just proposed to you in front of most of Great Britain . ’ |
| 3 | Like many such groups , they have acquired a patina of legend : during the nineteenth century there were those who referred to them as Druid stones , others who thought they were of Roman origin , and yet others who asserted they must be the gravestones of Danish invaders vanquished by Banquo and Macbeth . |
| 4 | Er , our importance has er , frankly now been recognised by the Prime Minister , who talked about the voluntary organisations not very long ago and referred to us as cement , which holds society together , and I think if that 's right , and hopefully , the government may take a bit more notice of us . |
| 5 | The system enables users to collate information downloaded to them from point-of-sale laptop systems and also to act as a point of information transfer between staff in the field and the head office . |
| 6 | When Thasos , under siege by Kimon , appealed to her for help , she offered ‘ secretly ’ ( but the offer was evidently everybody 's secret at Athens ) to invade Attica and thereby to relieve Thasos indirectly : Thuc. i. 101 . |
| 7 | Here she would receive such visitors as happened to be staying in the house , and subsequently reverential visitors , who appealed to her for aid or sympathy . |
| 8 | First , he had failed to do what he ought to have done when Bishop of Durham to discipline the ritualists in the parish of St Mary 's Tyne Dock , although some of the parishioners appealed to him for protection against illegal practices and ornaments of a Romish character . |
| 9 | Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount ; and every foreign transaction went via him . |
| 10 | Like many athletes Linford often came to him for advice . |
| 11 | ‘ 2(1) A person 's appropriation of property belonging to another is not to be regarded as dishonest — ( a ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he has in law the right to deprive the other of it , on behalf of himself or of a third person ; or ( b ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and the circumstances of it ; or ( c ) ( except where the property came to him as trustee or personal representative ) if he appropriates the property in the belief that the person to whom the property belongs can not be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 12 | It explained the shape of the mystical experience that came to him in prayer . |
| 13 | Rose came to him by night now . |
| 14 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 15 | Statistics came to her with ease , |
| 16 | Vagueness came to me with pregnancy . |
| 17 | Or , if someone came to me with arthritis of the fingers , I might ask him to ‘ think of your fingers lengthening ’ . |
| 18 | You came to me for help , remember ? |
| 19 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 20 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 21 | Although I was still young , important people came to me for advice . |
| 22 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 23 | The serpent god came to me in sleep and filled my belly . ’ |
| 24 | In London , the Charity Organization Society ( COS ) did pioneer work in developing a casework approach to the families who came to it for aid , helping them to solve their problems and help themselves rather than become dependent on charitable funds . |
| 25 | I came to it through climbing , having been active in mountaineering for years . |
| 26 | That is why I came to you for advice . ’ |
| 27 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 28 | ‘ People originally came to us for help with choosing wallpapers , paints , fabrics and curtains , but we realised we could give them a much broader service , ’ explains Jon . |
| 29 | The family wanted to dispute the will , and that 's when Angela — Miss Morgan — came to us for advice . |
| 30 | A man came to us for food recently , but he also needed spiritual counselling . |