Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the loathsome Mr Sterne had flown out here deliberately to coincide with her lonely holiday , which seemed most unlikely , or else Charles and Lucy had somehow omitted to inform him that Virginia was coming in their place . |
| 2 | The answer was that he had flown out quite coincidentally to attend a wedding . |
| 3 | It was on the market and it was a grand gesture by the owner — one that was much appreciated by the parents of the nine children , and by the Action Committee that had come together so promptly to support them . |
| 4 | ‘ If Charles had hung around long enough to notice the state I saw you in , he 'd have thought the worst had happened , Virginia . |
| 5 | They felt they had done well enough already to endure the service at Dull , and that there was no need to martyr themselves yet again ( the Reverend William MacIvor 's sermons were notoriously long and repetitious ) . |
| 6 | Dexter had woken up early only to find himself with forty minutes to kill . |
| 7 | The only difference was that most of them had finished long enough ago to sunbathe on the terrace , not trudging off the mountain at 9.00 o'clock . |
| 8 | On 14 December 1542 , James V died in his splendid royal bedchamber at Falkland , the beauty he himself had created no longer enough to pierce the malaise of his profound melancholy . |