Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [noun] [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Selfoss the assistant in the chemist 's tries to sell us surgical spirit when we ask for meths and there is a pantomime while Tony explains to her , in best sign language , that what he wants is spirit for a Trangia . |
| 2 | And then there was that night just before the murder when William came to him with his plan . |
| 3 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 4 | My mother thought about this for a moment until comprehension came to her , whereupon she changed the subject out of deference to my youth and inexperience . |
| 5 | He went up to his room while Marler went to his , dumped his bag on the bed , ran back to the elevator and walked out of the hotel . |
| 6 | Eva Burrows was undergoing a similar transformation though people talking to her probably understood very little of what was going on inside . |
| 7 | And if there had been no synthetic drugs to control the resistant strains , would the decline of streptomycin have been taken to prove that antibiotics were a waste of time because organisms adapted to them too easily ? |
| 8 | That woman is one bitch mother as Mellissa refers to her . |
| 9 | on the logo front when Linda wrote to me and said she could n't come to this meeting |
| 10 | Linda appeared with her bicycle , and reluctantly returned it to the gloom of the garage when Chrissie called to her to do so . |