Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed to be trying to outstare each other . |
| 2 | But , even if she did find their name and address , since the alternator needed seemed to be going to take some time to track down , there seemed little point in trying to contact them that day . |
| 3 | The court may order part of the goods seized to be sold to cover these ( Ord 25 , r 8 ) . |
| 4 | It preferred to be allowed to say some prayers for the Queen , the prime minister , and everyone else concerned with the choice , before they reached their conclusion . |
| 5 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with each of the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 6 | These conditions were , firstly , when subjects had to depress each of four Morse keys rapidly in turn with the four fingers of one hand and , secondly , when a whole arm movement had to be made to depress each key in turn . |
| 7 | The friends of David Cunningham , such as Colonel Blackadder , had to be put off with a clear refusal , and a request to persuade Cunningham to withdraw , while at the same time every effort had to be made to engage all those gentlemen who had not committed themselves to a candidate to rally to Kirkton . |
| 8 | In Southern Rhodesia so many Whites were withdrawn for war service , particularly in the Second World War , that Africans and mixed-race ‘ coloureds ’ had to be trained to do some of their jobs . |
| 9 | Something had to be done to tame this circuit , and it was … the " Ring " was brought down to size . |
| 10 | And secondly , due to shortage of heavy-lift transport aircraft in the RAF , the US Air Force had to be asked to provide those needed to fly in the heavier military equipments and supplies into Amman until an overland supply route could be established . |
| 11 | Mozart could not begin composing the arias to his opera before reaching Milan because they had to be written to suit each singer 's voice . |
| 12 | Cork stoppers were certainly common by the second half of the 17th century , though up to the early 18th century the really smart alternative was the glass stopper , which had to be ground to fit each individual hand-blown bottle . |
| 13 | And the outlets had to be revamped to attract more customers . |
| 14 | Great care had to be taken to hide this tell-tale clay , since its detection by aircraft would have betrayed the mines ' position and depth . |
| 15 | An unhappy crowd were told the step had to be taken to attract more students and so protect the college 's long-term future . |
| 16 | Did this mean that the historical sequence so far set up had to be modified to accommodate much more variety , and was the specifically European focus of the scheme in some way too parochial ? |
| 17 | Instead , there would be a set of lexical rules indicating which affix had to be added to produce each inflected form . |