Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 2 | Before I left , I expressed the hope that he could pay another visit to Oxford , though this time a purely private one , and I see that I wrote to him repeating this towards the end of term — the final term — because on 17 June he replied to my home address : |
| 3 | ‘ And ‘ t was not for the hand of a child that I wrote to your father a year later . ’ |
| 4 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 5 | You will recall that I wrote to you in June requesting that this work be carried out , and I was given a job number ( which I do not have to hand ) , but no date for the work to be done . |
| 6 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 7 | he used an illustration of the pig , you know you can polish the pig up , you can clean it , you can scrub it , you can oh de cologne it , you can do all sorts of things with it , you can tie a nice pink ribbon around it and you can put it in a palace , but it 's still a pig and it lives like a pig and you can cl and no matter how clean you 've made it , it 'll soon find some dirt to wallow in and the ribbon might make it look nice in the show ground but it does n't make any difference to its nature and so it is with us and so Jesus did n't start on the outside , but he starts at the inside he deals with the route of the problem , in One Corinthians chapter fifteen and in verse three it says for I deliver to you as a first importance , this is the basic thing , he says to them this was the first thing that I said to you because it was the most important that Christ died for our sins , according to the scripture , what ever else Christ gives to us , what ever else he does for us , what ever else the gospel produces , the basic , the most important , the fundamental thing is that Christ died for our sins . |
| 8 | the main point that I made to him was that after such a superb beginning where , where they actually state how much rubbish we produce , there 's absolutely no mention even though there 's space at the bottom there 's no mention of recycling at all . |
| 9 | ‘ And she has made the same promise to me that I made to my mum and dad . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ In the cold light of day it seems incredible that I toppled to my knees in so abject a manner . |
| 11 | One test , for example , that I suggested to you last week which would have surprised Freud , is by contention the children who were overwhelmed with parental investment , particularly by perhaps the parent of the opposite sex , should n't show much oedipal behaviour . |
| 12 | Thus it was with a certain amount of relief that I acceded to our editor 's request to look at FloorPlan Plus , ( FP from hereon ) which promises to make this kind of thing much easier to sort out . |
| 13 | I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesham ( Mr. Arnold ) some moments ago . |
| 14 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 15 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 16 | Paige pushed the thought away ; until the day dawned that she had to she refused to contemplate it . |
| 17 | She dipped her finger in scented black paste that she applied to her eyelashes . |
| 18 | the summer that she came to us . |
| 19 | It seemed to me , Father , that she inclined to us , and willed to visit us . |
| 20 | ( It may be inquired whether , if the wife knew of the VD , the law permitted the husband to infect her with it on the grounds that she consented to his occasioning actual bodily harm to her . |
| 21 | She was so startled the first time that she said to it : ‘ How nice to see you , my lord . ’ |
| 22 | She sought his mouth again , wrapping her arms around his neck , offering and receiving a kiss so fierce , impatient and demanding that she clung to him and she lost her balance , fell against him , felt him gather her up against the inflammatory hardness of his body and lift her on to the bed . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , God , ’ Ruth breathed with such distress that Fernando tightened his grip around her , folding her so hard into his tense body that she clung to him hotly . |
| 24 | Only a mysterious , mounting , electric tightness in her stomach and her groin , a build-up of sensation so extraordinary that she clung to his hard back as he moved rhythmically , fiercely claiming possession ; she dug in her nails without conscious thought of injury , heard herself cry out in astonished delight . |
| 25 | Afterwards he hacked her quietly home and was further amazed that she responded to his legs and hands and had the perfect mouth and balance of a made polo pony . |
| 26 | The third element that the plaintiff must prove in order to raise a constructive trust in a case of proprietary estoppel is that she acted to her detriment … |
| 27 | The fact that she held to her theory of carpel polymorphism , despite the overwhelming criticism levelled against it , in some measure detracts from the overall impact of her morphological work . |
| 28 | Also , people have been saying to me , ‘ My brother 's girlfriend 's aunt says that she spoke to someone who saw you on ‘ News at Ten ’ the other day ! ’ |
| 29 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 30 | ‘ Just that she wanted to he on her own for a bit . ’ |