Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [to-vb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharing photographs was to him an act of intimacy ; to show someone a photograph you took was to give them a ‘ deeper insight into you as well as what you discerned ’ . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 3 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 4 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 5 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |