Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must have thought you merited punishment , for the idea to have occurred to you at all . ’ |
| 2 | Those of us privileged to have spoken to him at some length and to have seen his fascinating family albums would have known of his boyhood tea with Hitler , his Military Medal midstream in some Eastern battlefield and a host of other incidents . |
| 3 | She could see that she had got to it at last . |
| 4 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 5 | Edward had remarked to him at one stage . |
| 6 | Several correspondents have written to me at different times expressing the wish that we join forces in order to become more effective . |
| 7 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |