Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of his speeches , the right hon. Gentleman spoke of a council that met once a year to put out contracts , had a good lunch and then went home . |
| 2 | Smith was a slow reader and took about an hour to read and ponder the document , after which he approved it and asked me to take it to Harold Wilson . |
| 3 | Rescuers found the red Datsun embedded in the tree and took almost an hour to free the men using hydraulic lifting and cutting gear . |
| 4 | France had not been a party to the negotiations , had not enjoyed the same privileged access to US nuclear technology , and possessed neither the submarines to launch Polaris nor the warheads to arm them . |
| 5 | Harry felt his way backwards to the wall , out of range of the searching eyes , and leaned there a moment to breathe more easily . |
| 6 | And stretched forth the knife to slay his son . |
| 7 | ‘ I lifted it out onto the pathway and had quite a job to prise the frog from the seemingly lifeless fish . ’ |
| 8 | She was through all the ordeals now , and had only the journey to accomplish . |
| 9 | It was his way of saying at once that he knew the worst of what was to come , and had only the details to learn . |
| 10 | But he says that when his grandfather and his grandfather 's brother were starting the Store and stayed late every night to do the office work , they used to hear sounds in the walls and they used to tell each other there were little Store people . |
| 11 | He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million . |