Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] to [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to get a grasp of what is happening in West Sussex , there is a useful one-page summary in the Housing and Environment the Housing Report which came to us last , at the last meeting . |
| 2 | Whilst many Methodists inclined to Calvinism , many of the leading Evangelicals , notably Simeon and the Rev.John Venn , Rector of Clapham , tried to avoid doctrinal controversies , which seemed to them irrelevant to the paramount issue : how to lead a Christian life and enter the Kingdom of Heaven . |
| 3 | He very much objected to the inevitable contraction of Nicandra to Nico , which seemed to him common . |
| 4 | Chamberlain and I were inclined to be impatient when we saw him so reluctant to take the only course which seemed to us possible . ’ |
| 5 | Others who have not this privilege would be well advised to listen carefully to recordings with the score , and to go over many times passages which seem to them obscure or unfamiliar in sound at a first hearing . |
| 6 | In this short piece we draw together the main themes which recur through the various contributions and which seem to us important . |
| 7 | My own impression of Mrs. Proudie is that of a domineering and annoying woman , but one who has her own opinions and is not afraid to express them , which seems to me good rather than otherwise , but the gentlemen , Mr. Harding and Dr. Grantly , are unused to mere women daring to say anything in the presence of men , who are obviously much more intelligent ! |
| 8 | First , there is one argument which is commonly used in this context , but which seems to me mistaken . |
| 9 | Whether he is zoologically correct or not , he certainly loses the sex of the animal , which seems to me important . |
| 10 | There are , of course , common points and common factors which apply to us all , but prescribed systems of management are seldom transferable . |
| 11 | But Henry broke away from the SACB after an incident which proved to him that apartheid was a two-way affair . |
| 12 | This displacement imparts to law a certain universality which gives to it symbolic efficacy in removing , or at least concealing , its arbitrariness . |
| 13 | They come here to make a success of their lives , which suggests to me that , despite all the gloomy statistics and stories that we hear from the Opposition , this is still a country of enterprise and opportunity , if one really wants to find that opportunity . |
| 14 | What matters to me most is the way I conduct myself . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 17 | He identified so closely with this work — for what seem to me all the wrong reasons — that his interpretation tended to tremble on the edge of bathos . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | What happened to him that year is typical of what has often happened at Ferrari : questions of detail . |
| 20 | ’ Did you hear what happened to him this morning ? |
| 21 | ‘ There 's not a man or woman here who does n't know what happened to me one night ten years ago ! |
| 22 | ‘ Did I tell you what happened to me last week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I 'll tell you what happened to me seven months ago . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're not suggesting that what happened to me this morning was attempted murder , are you ? |
| 26 | All the fish in the country will have to run for cover after what happened to me this week ! |
| 27 | Do n't know what happened to it all . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Do you know what happened to us last night ? ’ |
| 30 | What I have here described as the " normality " which human beings regularly attribute to what seems to them simple , intelligible , logically ordered , in contradistinction to the " abnormality " of disorderly unintelligibility , might , from a slightly different point of view , be seen as the opposition between the " rational " and the " emotional " . |