Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Margaret 's opinion the marriage had been moderately happy until 3 weeks before the overdose when her husband suddenly left home and went to live with a close friend of hers . |
| 2 | The edges are carefully bitten away or grosed to fit . |
| 3 | The droveways and drainage ditches were clearly well maintained throughout and began to silt up only during the currency of late colour-coated wares and coins of the house of Valentinian . |
| 4 | And this feeling is echoed by many parents whose children have successfully left home but return to visit : ‘ It 's lovely to see them come , but it 's lovely to see them go . ’ |
| 5 | Sewing machines were oiled , cottons , notions and so on gathered together and packed to take with us . |
| 6 | He was then taken outside and made to dig a grave in the rocky , frozen ground , which took about three hours , before sleeping in it for the night . |
| 7 | Although the defendants had power to cut off the water supply for non-payment of rates they had neither done so nor threatened to do so . |