Example sentences of "[adj] to [pron] and [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This plying of her trade was foreign to her and she felt unsure of her ability to carry it off . |
| 2 | I said yeah we 're try we 're , no I said oh yeah he 's he 's and then she also said slightly different to him and I said well he 's getting there thank you very much , yeah . |
| 3 | By the time she had done it several times , and copied out the postscript , and redone the drawing , it sounded false to her and she lost her nerve completely . |
| 4 | If someone was beastly to me and I mentioned it , she thumped them . |
| 5 | and they were very good to me and they kept in touch with me |
| 6 | Later he said to me that we had been very helpful to him and he said it 's bad enough to be depressed but when you 're depressed and hungry , it 's really bad . |
| 7 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 8 | ‘ On this last record , and Keith will attest to this , we spent ages recording guitars ; we had every guitar available to us and we went all out . |
| 9 | Every tuft of grass , flower , bird , was precious to her and she wanted to store them in her memory , against the day when they would no longer be hers . |
| 10 | Then we had erm , the other people next door , the woman erm , who was supposed to be a man-eater , we 'd actually looked round her house and it was ident identical to ours and we looked , we looked all the way round her house and like , she said , oh yeah , all the building 's the same but just in reverse and like , we met all the neighbours , plus the woman opposite had n't seen the flat , |
| 11 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |
| 12 | Isobel soon realized that she had not made , from her point of view , the wisest of marriages , but Peter was very kind to her and she did her best to make him happy . |
| 13 | The word was alien to her and she looked doubtful . |
| 14 | The job grew daily more loathsome to her and she understood now the defiant wretchedness which had been devouring Rose when they first met . |
| 15 | It was still new to him and he wanted to go on doing it . |
| 16 | The details of it all were a little mundane to him and he did not necessarily want to be implicated in them . |
| 17 | His studies in Leiden proved congenial to him and he developed a love for Arabia and Islam , which he felt provided a solid background for his Calvinist faith . |
| 18 | He stood quite close to her and he said , ‘ I do n't know who you are , lass , never clapped eyes on you , and from the look of you an' your voice you 're not the kind wor Robbie would pick up with . |
| 19 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 20 | Have been too close to it and it had , and the vents at the back had got churned up with dust at one time , I keep dusting it now . |
| 21 | he was far too close to it and he did n't see what was happening you see . |
| 22 | Her face was close to his and he kissed her . |
| 23 | I was very happy there , not just because I 'd won but also because the crown was very nice to me and I saw lots of Portuguese people . |
| 24 | She contrived to sit near to him and she gave him nice things to eat . |
| 25 | I remember having a problem like that where we were erm we had a , a load of erm we were watering that material it was warmed , we thought of course would be alright but they did er , they were quite sensitive to it and they looked quite miserable . |