Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
2 | ‘ Are you seriously telling me that you thought I proposed to you this morning ? |
3 | I 'd just make the simple point that a sudden twelve point five percent reduction , I referred to it this morning , er in in building , is not progressively and long term , it 's a sudden change . |
4 | Something that occurred to me this week . |
5 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
6 | Is the list going to have a new name from Northern Ireland added to it this season ? |
7 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
8 | Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way . |
9 | ‘ There is one I 'd strongly tip for the future who came to me that way , though . |
10 | Which just came to me that moment . |
11 | Er racking damage , Carrie 's who in bay one and two , came to me this morning and said the the racking that he checks it every morning when he comes at six or wh Six seven , whenever he starts . |
12 | Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for . |
13 | Even if we discount the fact that Rothmans was the British hope in the last Whitbread Round the World Race , it seemed to me that Yachting World took the opportunity to mention tobacco companies wherever possible . |
14 | It sometimes seemed to me that animal rights must always prevail over every other claim , however strong , including claims from the environment . |
15 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
16 | Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | All the fish in the country will have to run for cover after what happened to me this week ! |
19 | ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ? |
20 | A strange thing happened to me this morning . |
21 | What happened to him that year is typical of what has often happened at Ferrari : questions of detail . |
22 | ’ Did you hear what happened to him this morning ? |
23 | 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 . |
24 | This happened to you some way or other ? |
25 | ‘ I have had a bit of an accident and the car you rented to me this morning is now a burnt out shell ! ’ |
26 | She administered to him some wine diluted in water . |
27 | ‘ Gog talked to me this morning , ’ she said . |
28 | He chatted to them all evening , then went home and fell asleep . |
29 | I can not make myself write down the things that Jekyll , with tears in his eyes , confessed to me that night . |
30 | You saw to them this morning . |