Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Member for Oldham , West or I wrote to our local tax inspector and claimed that someone had put a form through our letterbox requiring only our signature for the taxation officer to open up our tax affairs for the past 30 years on the offchance that we might be entitled to something , that would be farcical . |
| 2 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 3 | Held : An occupier of premises owed the same duty of care to a fireman attending the premises to extinguish the fire as he or she owed to other visitors under s. 2 of the OLA 1957 . |
| 4 | However , if the patient required an X-ray he or she had to be seen by one of the consultants or registrars . |
| 5 | Either she was left with the excellent non-skiing kindergarten , which she enjoyed but where she did not learn to ski , something she very much wanted to do , or she had to be put into skischool . |
| 6 | It was common practice , for example , for a brothel-keeper brought before a court to claim that he or she belonged to a privileged nationality . |
| 7 | Apart from an explanation of the reason for the survey , how he or she came to be selected , a guarantee of anonymity , etc. , each question must maintain the respondent 's cooperation by treating him or her with courtesy and gratitude — a few ‘ pleases ’ and a ‘ thank you ’ are essential . |
| 8 | Neither spoke , nor was there need of words , and afterwards Carrie could not recall whether Seb came to her , or she went to him . |
| 9 | and or she went to the door |
| 10 | Moreover , Hahnemann discovered that if a patient needed a particular remedy he or she tended to be very sensitive to it — much more so than someone for whom it was not indicated . |
| 11 | The spokesman also stressed that anyone receiving what he or she considered to be a suspect package should exercise extreme caution and contact the police immediately . |
| 12 | The ‘ Do you remember when ? ’ stories can be so important in getting to know the person who has died , in hearing about how he or she appeared to their surviving family and friends . |
| 13 | We had customers that came or we delivered to , out of the area . |
| 14 | Most will be reluctant to undergo assessment , either because they are involved in criminal activity or they expected to be subjected to a judgmental and disapproving attitude towards themselves , or because they are afraid their children may be removed from them . |
| 15 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 16 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 17 | It seems or it seemed to us till lately — a natural thing that love ( under certain conditions ) should be regarded as a noble and ennobling passion : it is only if we imagine ourselves trying to explain this doctrine to Aristotle , Virgil , St Paul , or the author of Beomuy , that we become aware how far from natural it is . |
| 18 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 19 | ‘ Ernie and me went to school with Johnny ; Sarah was older . ’ |
| 20 | En route we fried and ate the well tenderised cod — this was filmed with plenty of zizzle track — and I drank to the loss of another illusion in the Scotch that will never be seen in Saudi Arabia . |
| 21 | Neither therapy was enjoyed and I listened to the catalogue of side effects like a reporter who had just pierced the darkest Amazonian forest and was observing a new race for the first time . |
| 22 | Later I descended with the songs of the skylarks still in my ears and I listened to the grumbling of the men in the mist of the grey streets . |
| 23 | His bedroom door was n't shut and I listened to the stillness inside . |
| 24 | I lay in my room like a dead body and I listened to Elizabeth thinking about her dinner party . |
| 25 | I can not account for its striking me more now than any other day , but it was as if new to me ; and I listened to every sentence he spoke as if to a musical composition . ’ |
| 26 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 27 | On my first visit , I sat and said nothing : all my conversation was stilled to triviality and I listened to Belle telling stories . |
| 28 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 29 | And I grew to be a man . |
| 30 | Masha and I rushed to him . |