Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone I spoke to was against the widening of the roads especially the steep pass down into Kinlochewe . |
| 2 | This was my first visit to the line and apart from being impressed by the set-up I felt a genuine warmness from everyone I spoke to . |
| 3 | ‘ You were rather mean by the way to tell everyone I spoke to — or was about to speak to — not to talk any more to Scotland Yard . |
| 4 | Whenever they visited me I listened to him reading . |
| 5 | One family gave me a day off every month , told me I had to be back before nine in the evening and checked my bag when I left to see if I had n't robbed anything . |
| 6 | Taking Harry gingerly with me I moved to the left , towards the wall , and with great relief found that there was indeed a walkway there at about the height of my waist . |
| 7 | I put the remains of our dinner on the window ledge to attract them , and when one of them alighted near me I called to it , ‘ Taste this couscous , steamed and mixed with oil , English pigeon , and tell me if it 's nice . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ People in football will understand — Lennie Lawrence told me I needed to be superhuman to perform in that atmosphere . |
| 9 | As a result of what one of the men ( the witness ) John Smith said to me I spoke to the accused etc . ’ |
| 10 | For example , at the next table at the Exmoor Forest Hotel , he had overheard two people talking to each other , a ‘ very well bred looking old man with a dry peevish voice whom I took to be mentally deranged and a woman who was either his daughter or his nurse ’ . |
| 11 | Some gentlemen dressed in grey whom I took to be equerries had organized us so that the royal party had two corridors , flanked by people , to walk down . |
| 12 | I began to reckon up the people whom I knew to be prisoners . |
| 13 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 14 | I made use of their terror for my own amusement , and raising my voice still more , I shouted at him whom I assumed to be present , lying invisible in some corner … |
| 15 | I just wanted to be private , to be able to choose whom I talked to , let alone where and when . |
| 16 | ‘ So my first thought was of a time-space machine ( thanks to H. G. Wells ) in which contemporary characters ( one of whom I wanted to be a 12–13 year old ) would be able to travel forward and backward in time , and inward and outward in space . |
| 17 | It 's an entirely different argument , which is being very thoroughly discussed locally at present and will go on being discussed , and it was erm really unfair to ask the parents to decide upon that veer a vote on opting out , and I think a lot of parents , including very many whom I spoke to , saw through that argument . |
| 18 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 19 | Still , no-one I spoke to in any organisation could name any cases where environmental opposition alone has stopped a course being built . |
| 20 | I I wrote to Atkins saying as Minister for the Environment er , Please support the energy conversation bill because it 's dead good . |
| 21 | I I I thought to myself , I think you are a damn fool you know ! |
| 22 | So er I I thought to myself well I du n no , I du n no all these Newton girls have been off to Sri Lanka or or , or Zaire or wherever and you 'd you know , is n't that great ? |
| 23 | I I got to that erm question you know you said could n't do any the geometry do the rest . |
| 24 | I I listened to Mr speech with some incredulity I must say , but I did listen to what he said and if what he said is true then I I find some of the things disturbing and and er I 'd like to see his figures and I I w I I that there have certainly been er two messages coming to the social services committee in in in that case . |
| 25 | No but it I mean it 's just been so long , it I I said to him , can I do this trial and he said , and i explained everything about it and he said , yes try it . |
| 26 | But I I I said to Joe well I 'm gon na phone up cos remember down Westminster that time |
| 27 | I I said to her that I could n't cope . |
| 28 | Well er I I said to young er what 's his name ? |
| 29 | Yeah well I I said to Geoff I thought about it , but I did that come to me quite quickly but Geoff could n't think of it could you Geoff ? |
| 30 | I I said to the chap he said did you have a good day , this little guy sitting next to me he answered yeah , good day yes did you see us ? |