Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 2 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |
| 3 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
| 4 | He took 17 hours to hatch at an ostrich farm at Weeton , Lancs — egged on by ranger Philip Bowness , who used an African trick of whistling to encourage him . |
| 5 | Night fell , but in spite of that , as Southey wrote to a friend , ‘ We talked philosophy like two poets and often paused one while to drink at a clear spring — another while to encourage poor Rover now quite lame — and sometimes to mark the glowworms paley ray . ’ |
| 6 | Oxford began their comeback with a try in the 44th minute , Smith sending another cut-out pass to Hein , who burst 15 yards to score at the flag . |