Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to come a grunt from somewhere . |
| 2 | Particularly in connection with Bacon and Gassendi , we have seen how , in opposition to it , there began to develop a conception of ‘ natural philosophy ’ ; a body of knowledge based firmly on the experienced facts of experiment and observation , rather than on the intellectual strait-jacket of the logic and categories of Aristotelianism . |
| 3 | Men advanced with beams of timber to the edge of the outermost ditch and there proceeded to erect a gibbet . |
| 4 | There had to come a point where I took control of my future . ’ |
| 5 | Well , they jogged along for some time but , as you might care to imagine , there had to come a moment when the legs had reached the top of the tree , everyone could see everything and therefore the game had finished . |