Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 2 | She remembered her last encounter with Alexander and failed yet again to understand her own behaviour . |
| 3 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 4 | She took her drink to the salon , where the remains of the fire still glowed , and after a while she put on the lamps and went slowly across to look at the paintings . |
| 5 | In August he went again to Switzerland , and for a week in September he looked after his grandniece who had travelled to London to see him ; but then he contracted athlete 's foot and had once again to enter a nursing home . |
| 6 | Then he put down the knife and took the sticky thing in his fingers and started very slowly to eat it . |
| 7 | The biggest of the children , a girl with a sweet , oval face and a stout stomach that strained the buttons of her green print dress , handed the baby she was carrying to a smaller sister and stepped eagerly forward to stand beside Martha . |
| 8 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 9 | Then she raised her head and shouted loud enough to make the man on the other side of the river glance towards them , ‘ With every day they waste , ’ before adding in a murmur : ‘ The thread Sam 's life hangs by grows thinner and thinner . ’ |
| 10 | Ace ran through rain that hissed like radio static , through mud that sucked at her heels , through rolls of smoke that cloaked the camp with the darkness of night and parted only occasionally to reveal nothing but clouds , almost as dark , racing across the sky above . |
| 11 | He picked up his fluted ball pen , crossed out some words , found a clean sheet of paper and began once more to write . |
| 12 | He reminded those who felt such concern that " since the war , Japan has dedicated itself to a purely defensive posture under our peace constitution and vowed never again to become a military power such as might pose a threat to other countries " . |
| 13 | They also display all the features of a volcanicity that lasted late enough to terrify Palaeolithic man and perhaps to provide him with his fire . |
| 14 | He took two wickets in each innings and did well enough to merit further matches . |
| 15 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 16 | The coachroof is of moderate height and carried right forward to wash into the deck at the after edge of the anchor well . |
| 17 | Fine moondust billowed high across the ancient plains of the moon 's dark crescent , expanding in boiling clouds that went high enough to catch the rays of the sun . |
| 18 | He cleared his throat and turned away delicately to allow her to use the hanky . |
| 19 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 20 | He reached Britain this week , but then refused to turn up for several arranged interviews and acted aggressively enough to justify his old nickname , Killer . |
| 21 | Eckersley then took over , conceded another run when Tony Fernandez scored on a sacrifice fly but stayed cool enough to strike out Junior Felix and end the game . |