Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife decided not to put off having the second child they had planned , despite the financial uncertainty . |
| 2 | The Jordanian foreign minister , Kamel Abu Jaber , speaking after talks with Syrian leaders in Damascus , called for the return of all the deported Palestinians , but in Cairo , the Lebanese prime minister , Rafik al-Hariri , did not rule out resuming the peace negotiations before the issue of the deportees was resolved . |
| 3 | However , he informed a parliament committee meeting on Jan. 9 that the central government was " working on a comprehensive action plan for revamping the administration in Punjab " , and did not rule out amending the Constitution to provide for more autonomy as long as all other political parties co-operated in the matter . |
| 4 | Bernard told Apricot that to believe in ghosts was to insult God : the souls of the dead went to heaven , purgatory or hell , depending , but did not hang around afflicting the living . |
| 5 | For people did not keep on wearing the same garments , not for eleven , twelve years . |
| 6 | He did not enjoy relentlessly repeating the set during practices . |
| 7 | As you can imagine , I did n't do much sleeping the first two or three nights I was there . |
| 8 | We did n't sit around discussing the past with each other . |
| 9 | She gripped his hand as tightly as she could , feeling a terrific wrench on her shoulders as he tried to haul her in , steadying himself against the door to ensure that he did n't end up suffering the same fate as his companion . |
| 10 | If this were the conclusion to a regular bass assessment , and not a fond peek into the past , I would have to say that I did n't get anywhere playing the VI . |
| 11 | It was as though a stream had been damned in the heart of the forest and had gradually widened out making the centre of the great bowl they were trying to cross into a swamp . |
| 12 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |
| 13 | He had almost considered not buying the house , but it was what he wanted , and how was he to know that things would be any different in another district ? |