Example sentences of "[vb past] to miss [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the autumn of 1839 , after long meditation , that Amanda Fergusson proposed to Miss Logan the expedition to Arghuri . |
| 2 | All appealed to Miss LaMotte on the question of the rapping spirits ; she declined to express an opinion , answering only with a Monna Lisa smile . |
| 3 | Miss Fergusson addressed him in what seemed to Miss Logan a mixture of Russo and Turk . |
| 4 | It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness . |
| 5 | He turned to Miss D'Arcy . |
| 6 | But I soon reminded myself that such trivial slips are liable to befall anyone from time to time , and my irritation soon turned to Miss Kenton for attempting to create such unwarranted fuss over the incident . |
| 7 | Ruth turned to Miss Beard . |
| 8 | Her mind flew to Miss Hatherby . |
| 9 | That was strictly his own idea to try and cover any hesitations while he hid the trail that led to Miss Tuckey and the picture on her wan . |
| 10 | In April of 1925 a vacancy for the post of superintendent nurse was advertised and the appointment went to Miss May W. Hall , who was 32 years old , and had been the assistant tutor and deputy superintendent nurse at St.James ' Hospital , Chester . |
| 11 | The next time I went to Miss Havisham 's , I was shown into a different room to wait . |
| 12 | Before I went to Miss Havisham 's and met Estella , I had always wanted to be apprenticed to Joe , and I had always been happy at home , in spite of my sister 's scolding . |
| 13 | Dressed in my new clothes I went to Miss Havisham 's house , where her cousin opened the gate to me again . |
| 14 | One was a Nelson 's story for girls , called ‘ A coronet for Cathie ’ , which we presented to Miss Cathie Donaldson , Queen of the Paperbacks ! |
| 15 | He spoke to Miss Senga who had stepped off the path to look at a snowman . |
| 16 | I spoke to Miss Kennedy about it when she was over here , so would she come now and castrate the male piglets , please ? ’ |
| 17 | The Archimandrite continued to smile , and his mood still appeared to Miss Logan a gracious one . |
| 18 | One of the officers who responded to Miss Wilson 's emergency call and was involved in the man 's arrest , PC Paul Giles , was said also to have arrested Mr Quinn . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's dangerous , a cold when you 're your age , dear , ’ she said to Miss Trimm . |
| 20 | And he said to Miss Miggs : |
| 21 | I turned away and said to Miss Kenton : |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll run down the hill and see if Jim Wilson 's got anything at the ship 's chandler , ’ I said to Miss Sowerby . |
| 23 | ( g ) We do not know what the mother said to Miss T. , because she has not chosen to tell the court , but it appears to be the fact that on the two occasions when Miss T. raised the issue of blood transfusions , she did so suddenly and ‘ out of the blue ’ without any inquiry from hospital staff and immediately following occasions when she had been alone with her mother . |
| 24 | She wrote to Miss Betty Vacani , the legendary dance teacher who has taught three generations of royal children , and asked if there was a vacancy for a student ballet teacher at grade two level . |