Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my godson 's picture had been hinged with this we would have to had to learn to live with the stain . |
| 2 | From this they would graduate to reading and summarising the records of past negotiations and finally to preparing detailed memoranda on various aspects of French foreign policy . |
| 3 | It is an agreeable feeling , the nearest you can get to living one of the parts in a Henry James novel . |
| 4 | It was the nearest she could come to saying what he wanted her to say . |
| 5 | Thus , for us , the idea of varying strength of network links is the nearest we can get to understanding the notion of a speech community . |
| 6 | How close she 'd come to betraying the warm brilliance of the meanings ! |
| 7 | Worse still was the realisation of how close she 'd come to making love with him . |
| 8 | ‘ Did he ? ’ she said , her whole body trembling now , as relief at her escape and terror at how close she 'd come to losing her life both stung tears from her . |