Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We seemed destined to replay the same parts in an old story . |
| 2 | A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere . |
| 3 | And at the cemetery the vicar , a man who looked as if he needed far more consolation than he would ever be capable of dispensing , had agreed to say a few words before Henry 's address . |
| 4 | Duncan had wanted to wait the few hours it would take to fix the Citation and run checks on it , but Myeloski was anxious to get to Tobolsk . |
| 5 | This had become an automatic response to most of his wife 's suggestions , and Scarlet had learned to have a few answers ready . |
| 6 | In the early days , I had tried to make a few suggestions about what the FO could be doing . |
| 7 | The Roker manager had planned to watch the former Spurs midfielder in action last week , but ran a check instead on Sheffield Wednesday 's Danny Wilson . |