Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You only got to walk into a room , people like you , and you can talk with anyone , you understand things , but when … |
| 4 | Oh I know , you only got to look at the VAT ai n't you for starters |
| 5 | There are , however , several sites which apparently came to depend upon a range of processing and manufacturing activities , over and above the normal level of economic provision . |
| 6 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |
| 7 | However , it suddenly began to erode as a result of the emergence of a Japanese competitor that managed to produce a product that was not only competitively priced but also of comparable or better quality . |
| 8 | The divan , lifted high at one end by Ludens , suddenly began to rush down the stairs , nearly overturning Jack and making a long scar upon the wallpaper with one of its feet . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The major , striking and henceforth continuous improvement in these conditions only began to occur after the end of our period . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was as she was approaching the last crest before the house came into sight that she suddenly had to stamp on the brakes as a Land Rover came pitching round the hillside . |
| 13 | The people there not only had to cope with the incidents themselves but living down the bad reputation . |
| 14 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 15 | YOU only had to walk into the members ' lobby of the Commons yesterday to know what you 'd suspected for days . |
| 16 | It also meant he only had to walk across the Paddock when he went on night duty . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 18 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 19 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 20 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 21 | They only had to wince at the racket for 20 minutes or so . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She could n't find one , so had to settle for an orange juice . |
| 24 | They had missed the track the night before so had to sleep in the bush with but one blanket each . |
| 25 | Similar results were reported by Bowers , Neilman , Satz and Altman ( 1978 ) who observed a bilateral but asymmetrical impairment on finger tapping when subjects merely had to listen to a story knowing that they would subsequently be asked to recall its contents . |
| 26 | Grabow and Elliott therefore carried out an experiment similar to that of McAdam and Whitaker and found that movements of the tongue to left or right induced asymmetric scalp potentials which were not observed when subjects merely had to think of a word . |
| 27 | The judge had warned the jury not to award " Mickey Mouse money " , by which he apparently intended to refer to a sum so large as to be unrealistic ( such as 1.5 million ) . |
| 28 | Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make . |
| 29 | ‘ He only wanted to go to the out-patients . |
| 30 | Their vision rarely seemed to extend beyond the size of their pay packets or of the tits in the vile papers they read . |