Example sentences of "attached to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bird got so attached to her that it would take food from between her lips . |
| 2 | Sheldon had become much attached to her during his time at the Lock Hospital and it is said that she asked him to embalm her body after her death , which he did . |
| 3 | The poor little bugger seemed to be attached to her . |
| 4 | Unusually , no blame is attached to her for the outcome . |
| 5 | They were still there , attached to her by unbreakable strings , but at least they retreated enough for her to have a breathing-space in which to resolve them . |
| 6 | I finally got upstairs and she had all these tubes attached to her , it was horrible . |
| 7 | A note attached to her read : ‘ I am a very good little girl . |
| 8 | The heart-rending note attached to her read : ‘ I am a very good little girl . |
| 9 | He was fourteen years old , blind and hardly able to walk , but they had grown much attached to him and could hardly endure the thought of his death . |
| 10 | Before Morrissette , Robbe-Grillet had appeared to accept the chosiste label attached to him by Barthes on account of the supposedly flat and neutral representation of external reality and the minute descriptions of objects in his early novels , which seemed to be in accordance with the phenomenological position outlined in Pour un nouveau roman . |
| 11 | He vowed that no hint of scandal would ever be attached to him . |
| 12 | I 'd almost got the feeling he was attached to me , or maybe I was attached to him . |
| 13 | Certainly , the sort of rumours and gossip which were common about his sister and brother were not attached to him . |
| 14 | Now , with Liza gone , she felt she would be able to mourn Tom 's passing in her own quiet way for , despite his many failures as a husband , she had been deeply attached to him . |
| 15 | Mike went down to assist Dave Lister in sorting out the rope which was still attached to him , and Dave moved along and up the bergschrund to aid Steve in routefinding as he downclimbed , diagonally to the right , towards a narrower slot which he might cross unroped . |
| 16 | Tom 's getting quite attached to him in a macabre sort of way , so why should n't I ? |
| 17 | The accredited representatives of foreign States participating in the investigation should be attached to him rather than to a particular group , so that they have a complete appreciation of the whole picture . |
| 18 | Jesus is attached to him , but can hardly be said to confide in him . |
| 19 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 20 | Finally , the Home Secretary will recall that , at the time of the Brixton escape fiasco , he claimed that no blame attached to him because he had not been consulted . |
| 21 | ‘ Ol ’ gravel guts ' and ‘ Ol ’ Stoneballs ' were two of the more complimentary nicknames his men attached to him . |
| 22 | The only safety measures were two wires attached to him . |
| 23 | Although Crawford had two safety wires attached to him , he succeeded in holding on to the car during all the filming . |
| 24 | A judge should only find a child guilty of contributory negligence if he or she is of such an age as reasonably to be expected to take precautions for his or her own safety ; and then he or she is only to be found guilty if blame should be attached to him or her . |
| 25 | I would , by the way , like to thank the members of , of the Investment Panel , for the help and support they 've given me , and also , in fact , to point out that erm , although s er , your your Chairman has spoken of Sir Ray severing his formal links with the Council , I have to say that we still do have one or two claws still attached to him , in that he remains on , as a very valued member of the Investment Panel , and will continue to provide his wisdom and advice , for which we are all very grateful . |
| 26 | Kicking open the living-room door , his mouth still firmly attached to hers , he sat in the armchair , her slim form cradled on his lap . |
| 27 | All this made his instruction in the scriptures and the explanation attached to them more dramatic ; not least his studies in the sacred language which he was expected to acquire . |
| 28 | Non-preferred terms are not absolutely forbidden for use in the records , but no relationships are attached to them , and this has implications during information retrieval . |
| 29 | Because he or she appears to manage , the owners might not realise that old age is taking its toll and that the dog has become much more attached to them because of its sudden psychological inability to cope with the environment . |
| 30 | The tRNA molecules with the anticodon CCG also have attached to them the amino acid glycine . |