Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [coord] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very large number have been turned away and told to go back home . ’ |
| 2 | The content of the mail message is constructed by providing one or more strings which will be added together and packed to form the final mail text . |
| 3 | Finally , models of care management must be tracked carefully and evaluated to show whether brokerage is the hub or the rub of community care . |
| 4 | Is he aware also that during that time scale many seriously ill patients had to be turned away and had to go to other hospitals and that patients using the unit had to be taken out of it prematurely so that others more seriously ill could take their place ? |
| 5 | It should be watered well and allowed to drain , and then put into its place in the home , out of the sun for a day or two . |
| 6 | This wastage offended Laura too , who thought the fabric was quite good enough to be used somehow and decided to try selling remnants . |
| 7 | She says it make her mad that they should be locked away and left to starve . |
| 8 | Although alarms went off , these were initially ignored , and staff inside the ten-storey building had to be found individually and told to leave . |
| 9 | In this case , people met at work or in the pub will not be asked home or invited to go out to a dance . |
| 10 | They told the men in custody that they would be released soon and appeared to believe it . |
| 11 | Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon manifest structures of adjacency or alterity in which exemplary texts of both past and present are invoked and implicitly questioned by being brought together and made to interact ; their semantic orientation is refracted by the context in which they are placed and their referential function remotivated . |
| 12 | We were thrown together and had to get on with it . ’ |
| 13 | When the woman was upset and thoroughly bewildered we were sent away and told to report back later that afternoon . |
| 14 | The two documents were published together and helped to ensure that attention was focussed upon any alleged defects in the scheme and its administration . |
| 15 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 16 | Work is done quickly and allowed to dry . |
| 17 | If the guess was wrong then she was told so and asked to guess again . |
| 18 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
| 19 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |