Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 2 | That 's all that matters to me at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | They seemed to have a different attitude to the lecturers and were not afraid to go to them for elucidation of points they did not fully understand , and in tutorials showed their wider knowledge , and their readiness to think for themselves rather than just reproduce what they had learned from textbooks and lectures . |
| 4 | Within a few years , most Boards felt that the Consultative Councils helped to defuse individual complaints and to present a favourable image to the public , and were willing to defer to them on some matters of general policy of an essentially political or presentational nature , such as priorities in rural electrification or aspects of domestic charging . |
| 5 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 6 | Please feel free to write to us with your comments . |
| 7 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 8 | This seemed to me to be one of the most perceptive remarks in the essay , about which some elaboration on his part would be of considerable interest . |
| 9 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 10 | And , perhaps , since he was not blinded by love after all , he might be prepared to listen to her for once ! |
| 11 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 12 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 13 | With a Raleigh-esque flourish he threw a hanky over the unexploded missile and scraped it up , apologising profusely , before pocketing the prize and slinking off , red-faced and too embarrassed to talk to me for the rest of the evening . |
| 14 | And this happens to me after spending five months in Brazil — in Rio , Salvador , f'chrissake . |
| 15 | He termintade that counselling , butr we are willing to talk to him through his partish priest or bishop . |
| 16 | Pharmacists are not only willing to talk to you about medicines but about many other aspects of health as well — and in private if you prefer other customers not to hear . |
| 17 | Even when people appear willing to talk to us about their difficulties , it is not always the real problems that they will initially present . |
| 18 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 19 | This happened to me in Clumber Park , the National Trust Country Park in Nottinghamshire . |
| 20 | This happened to me in May this year when I walked into ‘ Pluggers ’ shop ( Wet Pet of Detroit ) and saw the most beautiful pair of Ornate Birchirs ( Polypterus ornatipinnis ) I had ever seen for sale . |
| 21 | A. This sounds to me like a classic case of the ‘ straw that broke the camel 's back ’ syndrome . |
| 22 | This seems to me to be an enormous change . |
| 23 | This seems to me to be mostly self-regarding poppycock . |
| 24 | This seems to me to be a more accurate picture of the nature of religious belief than one which suggests that those who really believe , must confess to an unbridgeable gulf between themselves and ‘ unbelief ‘ . |
| 25 | This seems to me to be at the root of the false notion of ‘ independence ’ being pursued by so many local élites throughout Europe and beyond . |
| 26 | And this seems to me to be the clue . |
| 27 | This seems to me to be only half the story . |
| 28 | May I quote in its entirety the sentence from which you extracted your sub-title : ‘ In order , on the one hand , to make use of the catalogue easier , and on the other , to keep certain material confidential to protect the artist 's name , image and market every work is accompanied by a caption which gives only the principal facts from the archival entries ’ This seems to me to be quite clear and explanatory of common practice in the writing of captions . |
| 29 | This seems to me to be a real cause for celebration . |
| 30 | This seems to me to be more consistent with the need for justice to be seen to be done — and this both by the alleged contemnor and the more general public . |