Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 2 | Oh I know , you only got to look at the VAT ai n't you for starters |
| 3 | The Commission found that it could no longer find any Poles or Kaszubians who were willing to sell their land , and so began to turn to the purchase and resale of Junker estates . |
| 4 | The major , striking and henceforth continuous improvement in these conditions only began to occur after the end of our period . |
| 5 | I literally had to plunge into the abyss and find out what I could about what they were doing to me , or what they wanted me to do . |
| 6 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 7 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 8 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 9 | They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so . |
| 10 | When I complained , the company said there was a clause on the processing envelope that said if anything went wrong , it only had to pay for the film . |
| 11 | They had missed the track the night before so had to sleep in the bush with but one blanket each . |
| 12 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |
| 13 | In return , Flemish weavers eventually came to settle in the neighbourhood and teach local workers their ‘ mysteries ’ . |
| 14 | Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month . |
| 15 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 16 | Peter desperately tried to scramble from the wreckage , fearing the car would burst into flames . |
| 17 | All three landing gear legs were torn off shortly after ground impact and the aircraft finally came to rest on the belly of the fuselage . |
| 18 | It finally came to rest near the caravan , at the start of the runway . |
| 19 | just happened to mention in the night says I 'd like a white telly you know , go a bit more with , with the decor |
| 20 | Not knowing how to refuse without sounding churlish , she looked down and absently began to smooth off the roughness of the article she was holding with an emery cloth . |
| 21 | When my father died , his brother Perry generously undertook to pay for the education of Brian and myself . |
| 22 | She no longer needed to jump in the swimming pool to raise £5 , though if it had been necessary she would probable have done it : " You believe in God but you also use every means possible to raise funds . |
| 23 | Sylvie spoke in French , as she normally continued to do in the house , and glared at her daughter . |
| 24 | Oh Just had to go to the toilet did n't I ? |
| 25 | We just had to look for the Motor Caravan Construction Code symbol . |
| 26 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 27 | for the sake of , for the sake of a few bands that we do , I mean most of the bands on the local level are used to playing in pubs so they just had to play on the floor anyway and the rest of it |
| 28 | Periodically Moreau translated for the benefit of his countrymen , who thereupon continued to behave in the manner of stage Frenchmen , with much shrugging and stifled Gallic oaths . |
| 29 | Even during the period of the " phoney war " he had fantasies of the house being bombed , and in June 1940 he asked Herbert Read to store in the country some of his books and clothes in order to prevent them from being destroyed in an air-raid.When on 7 September the " blitz " against London did begin , he decided that he no longer wished to stay in the capital . |
| 30 | The final preparatory committee for June 's critically important Earth Summit ended in almost total failure precisely because politicians the world over refused to act on the advice of their own scientists . |