Example sentences of "something [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief . |
| 2 | But something still had to be done about the EDC and its ratification . |
| 3 | Something clearly had to be done , and done quickly , for the ramparts were now diminishing at a steady rate the longer the rain lasted , the more quickly the ramparts melted . |
| 4 | Something clearly had to be done . |
| 5 | Arriving at Agheila they discovered that all the aircraft based there left at night , so something else had to be improvised . |
| 6 | And then , as something else occurred to him , ‘ Was that , then , the only time that twins had ever been born to the Wolfline ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 8 | Something else occurred to Sally-Anne . |
| 9 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |