Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did seem to meet quite a number of people on her walks ; people whom I knew a little , so that fragments of conversation pursued me . |
| 2 | Kenneth Graham did come to visit quite a lot between 1880 and 1910 . ) |
| 3 | Although I had decided to have neither a healer nor a counsellor , I had , in earlier weeks when feeling positive , made gentle , tentative enquiries . |
| 4 | She wished she had decided to come home a month earlier , even two days earlier . |
| 5 | Dawn Groves had hoped to put together a production of Joseph and His Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat but the amateur rights have been withdrawn . |
| 6 | His challenger , Mr Edwin Eisendrath , a city alderman , had tried to stitch together a coalition of young apolitical professionals and ‘ reform ’ Democrats . |
| 7 | Benny had elected to carry only a revolver , though she had tucked a couple of grenades in the pockets of a second safari jacket she had pilfered from the TARDIS 's wardrobe . |
| 8 | Poppy had managed to gather quite a collection of workmen 's boots , so I went to the pet shop and bought her some toys , which she loved playing with . |
| 9 | She scuttled over to the far side of the room and had managed to read quite a lot of the letter before Julius came charging after her , taking the paper back from her with such force that it almost ripped in half . |