Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , we apparently only came to some understanding of how the heart worked when we had within our conceptual framework the notion of a pump . |
| 2 | Even this century has produced stubborn opponents of the view that the library was either burnt in one of Moscow 's fires , or that the books were long ago dispersed to other libraries , or that , in reality , there never was such a library . |
| 3 | ‘ Although I do n't recall that we ever actually spoke to each other . ’ |
| 4 | These include several Bibles ; a psalter ; sets of illustrated leaves which probably originally belonged to two psalters ; and the earliest surviving fully illustrated English Book of Hours . |
| 5 | Emily Faithfull herself rather naively replied to one questioner : Suppose a printer receives from 30s to 36s a week and suppose his wages were reduced 10s per week , and his daughters who before had been in no employment receive each 10s , 12s or 15s … |
| 6 | Charles Temple almost certainly came to Northern Nigeria with the idea of another Punjab in mind : his father , the distinguished Indian administrator Sir Richard Temple , had been in his youth one of John Lawrence 's hard-riding young men , and it was he who wrote in 1901 asking for his son ‘ to become one of the recruits which Lugard is raising for Nigeria . |
| 7 | On Nov. 23 , 1989 , the deputy director of Moscow 's Institute for Europe told an audience in London that the Soviet Union no longer aspired to global superpower status and was now just a " major European power " , and in Izvestiya on Jan. 19 , 1990 , Shevardnadze advocated the gradual establishment of " a European confederation … of equal nations , whose borders are recognized as unshakeable constraints " . |
| 8 | ‘ You very nearly got to that stage today . ’ |
| 9 | So you never really went to any fortune teller ? |