Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dust began to clear after half a minute . |
| 2 | But at the time they thought that was all they could get , and they decided to go for half a loaf rather than the whole . |
| 3 | The Headmaster decided to charge for such a privilege , and said the money would go to the school fund , but a week later was seen showing off three new gowns with different coloured linings . |
| 4 | I had to wait at most a couple of minutes before Dennis opened the back door , walked across to the garage , unlocked it , swung the door up and stepped inside . |
| 5 | It is surprising that London did not industrialize and that the population continued to grow at such a rate . |
| 6 | If one wished to aspire to such a role , what criteria would one need to fulfil , I wonder ? |
| 7 | Both Geoffrey le Baker and Murimuth are clear that this was the crucial issue under discussion in the parliament , and both record that the king refused to agree to such a proposal . |
| 8 | However , Randall ( with more concern for principled commercial independence than for the economic logic of external benefits ) refused to ask for such a subvention from central reserve funds for his London Board ( which carried the greatest burden of standardisation expenditure ) . |