Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah , I only said to Chris the other day , I thought god I have n't seen Trevor for ages , I honestly did and I , I did n't think you know , anything wrong with him . |
| 2 | In the circumstances ‘ dead on schedule ’ hardly seemed to Lewis the happiest of phrases , but he knew that Morse was right about the call from Babington 's . |
| 3 | It formally returned to Japan the sovereignty she had lost in her atomic-bombed defeat , and enabled her to recommence her ambitious ascent towards economic supremacy — a climb which , though frustrated and corrupted before , was this time and at last to culminate in her present astonishing success . |
| 4 | This is only the most recent of a number of ‘ discoveries ’ of this elusive library , which really belonged to Ivan the Terrible 's father , the Grand Duke of Moscow , Vasily III , who in turn had inherited it from his father , Ivan III , husband of Sophia Palaeologus , the niece of the last Byzantine emperor . |
| 5 | " He spent the whole winter in wasted effort " , while early in the new year his Rhineland civitates too fell to Louis the German . |