Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He also had in him the wrathful patriarch of the Protestant religion , for he was the product of the two warring faiths , of an Irish Catholic mother and an Irish Presbyterian father , and of the Sunday ritual my mother would repeatedly describe as if narrating the auspicious early life of a saint . |
| 3 | They even brought with them the distinctive knocker which was later returned to Oxford in the late nineteenth century . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |