Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was remembering the revelation that had come to her just a few short moments ago , in what seemed like another age now , before Alexander had kissed her . |
| 2 | Questions of religion mattered so much to the leaders of the colony that arguments in favour of religious toleration would have seemed to them simply a new onslaught on the purity of religion . |
| 3 | And the passion with which the surviving English monks defended their past and resisted change must have seemed to him simply a final proof of mental and spiritual decay . |
| 4 | In what many observers regarded as a further example of the new censorship , Gosteleradio on Feb. 1 withdrew from Radio Russia two frequencies giving it an audience throughout the Soviet Union , and assigned to it instead a frequency on which it could reach only 60 per cent of the population and which reduced the quality of reception . |
| 5 | The directorship , for which he had struggled for years , represented to her only a house in Vanier Heights . |
| 6 | Well , as you know , she did n't have a sweet tooth , not her , but I — They were sent to her twice a year for as long as I can remember . |