Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 2 | Ronnie had written to me a few months before , saying that she had hesitated to get in touch but wanted me to know how concerned she was about John . |
| 3 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 4 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 5 | It had seemed to him a natural extension of his duties , and somehow consistent with Islamic notions of hospitality , to assume responsibility for seeing that Owen was properly supplied with coffee . |
| 6 | The future , which once had seemed to her a long , grassy vista into distant sunlight , was now a black impenetrable vapour , blowing towards her menacingly , like some poisonous gas , and threatening to envelop her . |
| 7 | Essentially , all the invention consisted of was an overhead vacuum cleaner which moved back and forth between the textile machines and which had attached to it a long vertical tube , reaching almost to the floor . |