Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " 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 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 4 | Erm , because of the Nathan reports , I mentioned to you last year , we 're going to have to raise more money than we thought sometime ago . |
| 5 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff . |
| 8 | Something that occurred to me this week . |
| 9 | A bleak thought that occurred to him one night , crossing the Hungerford Bridge on the way back from a check of Cardboard City . |
| 10 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 11 | Henry VII extended the Crown estates ; Henry VIII added to them monastic lands and developed the subsidy ; Mary restored the value of the customs duties . |
| 12 | Is the list going to have a new name from Northern Ireland added to it this season ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The solution came to her one evening when Nahum commented on her excessive pallor . |
| 15 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 16 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 17 | Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way . |
| 18 | ‘ There is one I 'd strongly tip for the future who came to me that way , though . |
| 19 | Which just came to me that moment . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 21 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It sometimes seemed to me that animal rights must always prevail over every other claim , however strong , including claims from the environment . |
| 26 | ‘ Seemed to me old Throgmorton had a point . |
| 27 | The chairmen were , of course , willing to make some cuts where the national interest required it , but Gaitskell pushed them too far , making what seemed to them impossible demands . |
| 28 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 29 | ‘ A creeping sense of sickness comes over me at the unnecessariness of mediocre painting , ’ he wrote , admitting also that he sat back , whilst others indulged in what seemed to him brittle insanity , ‘ with a sort of smothered grin and tight feeling of suffocation ’ . |
| 30 | Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest . |