Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He demonstrated to me an Ergoline 35-tube sunbed in which a man lies full length . |
| 2 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 3 | He described to me a life of violence and hatred in which he lost no opportunity to vent his anger upon those around him — and , what is more , he actually enjoyed doing so . |
| 4 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 5 | Last year , I reported to you a deficit of three hundred and thirty thousand . |
| 6 | In The Silmarillion Tolkien played through once more the drama of ‘ paradise lost ’ ; but he added to it a hint of ‘ paradise well lost ’ ( for many of the elves preferred Middle-earth even to immortal life , like Arwen ) ; and through the story there runs a delight in mutability , as languages change and treasures pass from hand to hand ; the deepest fable is of beauty forged , stolen , and lost forever in recovery . |
| 7 | Federal Treasurer Paul Keating retained his post and added to it the title of Deputy Prime Minister , thereby increasing speculation that he would succeed Hawke as Prime Minister [ see above ] . |
| 8 | When all else failed , or it simply appealed to her a woman could always turn to the ranks for employment . |
| 9 | Again there came to him a sense of how small a town of some eighty-five thousand people really was . |
| 10 | However , he was also imbued with papal influences that came to him no doubt from his Roman and " papal " background , from Pope Gregory VII and from St Bernard in his tremendously important address to Eugenius III . |
| 11 | We are told that the hermit was once sitting alone in his cell after dinner when there came to him the lady of the house … and many persons with her , and found him writing rapidly . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr O'Hare came to me a number of times complaining that he was being pestered . |
| 13 | It seemed to me a duty to pay homage to those Jews who , in desperate conditions , had found the courage and the skill to resist . |
| 14 | And there seemed to me a safety , a kind of warmth in such numbers . |
| 15 | There seemed to me no chance of the necessary chain of events being completed . |
| 16 | It seemed to me an absurdity . |
| 17 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 18 | As she read on , day after day , often by candlelight , through St Matthew and St Mark and on to St Luke and St John it seemed to her a message was reaching her and that message was that she must face her own wickedness . |
| 19 | Staring through the streaming window , Nell gritted her teeth every time the bows pushed out over the top of a big wave , only to hang in space before dropping away into the sixty-odd feet of the following trough that seemed to her a mile deep . |
| 20 | The short process of giving birth to a baby seemed to her a triviality compared to the long haul of rearing it that lay ahead . |
| 21 | Going out to tea always seemed to her a waste of time , but to refuse might have seemed churlish , and she knew that in the country one ought to be friends with one 's neighbours . |
| 22 | The Comédie Française did not impress her either , for it seemed to her a collection of posturing gabbling shadows , mocking at plays that she had studied in tranquillity and silence : the celebrated mirrors of Versailles were all spotty , Notre-Dame looked at her as though it had two spires missing from on top , and the famous intellectual cafés were full of old men and tourists . |
| 23 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 24 | Even her timidity seemed to him a sham . |
| 25 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |
| 26 | He handed to her a copy of A Portrait of The Artist As a Young Man . |
| 27 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |
| 28 | We er emphasised to him the impact this would have on Oxfordshire 's er spending requirements and er the hope that the er spending that we get , and we get it in two ways ; one is through , called the standard spending grant , that is a general grant that was given to authorities to spend as they wish , and the other is a specific grants which are given for particular purposes , and some of them cover the legislation that I have mentioned , which we are required to spend specifically on the items for which they 're given . |
| 29 | He misrepresented to her the purpose of the advance . |
| 30 | Second , she contended that her husband misrepresented to her the effect of the legal charge . |