Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 How superior she suddenly felt to that woman in the bed , the woman whom she had so long admired , even idolised , but who knew little of human nature after all .
2 More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ .
3 She felt excluded from their world even though she could not have been better informed ; the trouble was Ferdinando still belonged to that world .
4 ‘ You very nearly got to that stage today . ’
5 If suffering a ropey marriage automatically led to that sort of state of grace , half the women in the country would be walking round with an outsize halo above their head .
6 In Washington , Watson and his wife took lunch with President and Mrs Cleveland who later came to that night 's lecture .
7 Deletion of a home record may mean that , even though the home position is now free , a number of other records that originally randomized to that address are held as synonyms .
8 No matter how I tried to explain , he could n't see how the odd fifty pound note or bottle of whisky he spread around contributed to that image .
9 So people left Earth and never returned to that planet .
10 ‘ On this occasion , the Argentine government and its people , who never consented to that act of force , reiterate their permanent will to recover by diplomatic means the exercise of its territorial sovereignty over the Malvinas , Southern Georgias and Sandwich islands and the surrounding waters , ’ the communique said .
11 Mind you , you never went to that playschool so
12 I never wrote to that box number .
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