Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that your father and I … well , we thought he was a very pleasant young man , and he seemed to like you quite a lot . ’ |
| 2 | Unlike the mothers of some of the other children , her mother came to see them quite a lot , and she remembers it not being so bad — " once you get used to it , it 's just like your home " . |
| 3 | At first they came to visit us once a month but then the visits became few and far between . |
| 4 | Carlos Alberto Reutemann , that cunning , solitary ace from Argentina , worried about his racing twenty-four hours a day ; James seemed to give it scarcely a thought — technically , as a contributor to development he was something less than a devoted genius ( but on the track he had extraordinarily good reflexes and a lot of savvy ) . |
| 5 | ‘ He seemed to consider you quite a threat . |
| 6 | Philip went to see him twice a day , encouraged by Claudia , who hoped the child would make up to him for Eileen . |
| 7 | He was concerned to explain how they came to accept jobs which to the external observer appeared to offer them only a lifetime of poorly paid , insecure and even dangerous work . |
| 8 | And we had to do it over a week and over a month because some weeks you do things that do n't do |
| 9 | He had to ask what exactly a director was . |