Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 2 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 3 | Norman Bowler witnessed the vagaries of Minton 's existence at this time , but the older man also revealed to him a tender side which his performance in public obscured . |
| 4 | I then quoted to him a remarkable analysis of how drivers must use their minds . |
| 5 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |