Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] to an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once went to an art film festival . |
| 2 | I recently replied to an ad in your magazine for some tuition tapes at a cost of £16.50 inc p+p for three . |
| 3 | as if to illustrate this point I recently spoke to an angler on the Ribble and judging by the distance he held his hands apart — ’ Like this they were ! ’ — his recent catch of ’ two pounders ’ could easily have been around the 6lb mark ! |
| 4 | We then went to an exhibition of the salvaged artifacts with some very realistic looking wax work people amongst them . |
| 5 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 6 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 7 | He finally succumbed to an uppercut and a big right in the 11th , yet rose to pursue a clearly lost cause until the end , the final bell being greeted with a standing ovation . |
| 8 | It also led to an investigation of whether anything said in that review had been noticed by the author . |
| 9 | He also brought to an end , but not without difficulty , the suit which had begun between the archbishop and the chapter of Canterbury over the church of Lambeth , which the same archbishop , against the will of the chapter , had built and endowed with many and substantial rents , instituting canons regular in it — noble men , powerful and educated . |
| 10 | He also referred to an attack on Thursday by US Cobra helicopter gunships on Somalis in which as many as 100 people , including some women and children , were killed or wounded . |