Example sentences of "had [verb] to a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committees had to work to a very tight timetable . |
| 2 | By the time of his death , in May 1991 , none of his many books was available in paperback , and sales of the hardback editions had dropped to a very low level indeed . |
| 3 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 4 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 5 | Design manager Ian Cheetham , 30 , said calmly : ‘ It was no big deal and we had to get to a very important meeting with clients . ’ |
| 6 | I had returned to a very different Air Force indeed . |