Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 2 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 3 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 4 | But they only started to perfect it at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
| 6 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 7 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 8 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
| 9 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 10 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 11 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 12 | Drinking off the last of the wine and moving on to the coffee he finally managed to confront himself with the question of why he had been so slow to begin . |
| 13 | Guy Sterne 's smile was dry as she finally emerged to join him by the outdoor pools , her expression almost serene . |
| 14 | He just wanted to use me as a sort of social-aid-cum-aphrodisiac . |
| 15 | I rather thought just wanted to contrast it with the other case and er it may not be obvious to the jury but why , why did you want a shot gun that 's a little shorter ? |
| 16 | And the recreation committee yesterday agreed to replace it with a new wooden one costing £9,500 . |
| 17 | Maybe , if she could squeeze a mink coat out of Maxie , it would help her towards the membership which always seemed to elude her by a vote or two , a vote strongly influenced , she feared , by Olga Stych . |
| 18 | They always forgot to send it with the papers . |
| 19 | If she still managed to get anything in the way of a book published he would persuade some friends to provide bad reviews . |
| 20 | When I did find her , she always managed to evade me like a will-o'-the-wisp , and then I would lose her again . |
| 21 | They always cried to put you in the wrong . |
| 22 | The poor little cat had never got over its terror of flying , and Mildred always had to prise it from the broomstick whenever she arrived anywhere . |
| 23 | I always intended to visit him after the war , but you know how it is : things were difficult , I was confoundedly busy at the University , I did n't particularly want to see Viola again though you 've got to swallow the pill with the jam , have n't you , and there was no particular reason why I should n't see her again . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've known and loved it over the years , and always wanted to put it on an album . |
| 25 | Her palette of evocative earth and sea tones also seemed to link her to an English landscape tradition , and her work was included in a group show at the Serpentine Gallery in 1984 entitled Landscape , Memory and Desire . |
| 26 | He also threatened to drag him down the street handcuffed to the bumper of his car . |
| 27 | They also declined to commit themselves to an extension of the May ceasefire , although the possibility of an outbreak of large-scale fighting was minimized by the onset of the rainy season . |
| 28 | More than that , she nearly died to save you from the results of your own jealousy and spite . |
| 29 | Mr Parkinson also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link through Kent , saying that it was ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |
| 30 | He also appeared to distance himself from the BR route for the Channel tunnel link , saying that when BR brought forward the Bill for its preferred route through Kent , it would be ‘ for Parliament to settle the way forward ’ . |