Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt clear headed enough to tackle the remainder of the long journey north . |
| 2 | There were lights in the Dale now , as the men who lived there came forward to investigate the tumult . |
| 3 | It did not take long to see the extension of the concept . |
| 4 | It did not take long to fetch the horses round . |
| 5 | This last headline did not seem fully to express the collective view of the Shadow Cabinet and the next instalments of the Meacher plans for social security never appeared — much to our disappointment . |
| 6 | While imports increased , exports did not flourish sufficiently to fill the growing gap . |
| 7 | The report noted that advocates of re-introduction did not wish simply to limit the penalty to the same offences as those to which it had applied between 1861 and 1948 . |
| 8 | ‘ I did n't come here to discuss the past , Natasha . |
| 9 | As our group made a hasty retreat , Bosnia 's Muslim interior minister , Mr Alija Delimustafic , entered the fray , pressing the Yugoslav Army commander over why its forces had not intervened earlier to halt the attack . |
| 10 | Among more radical monetarists and free marketeers there remains disappointment that the government had not done more to shift the middle ground . |
| 11 | There was a reaction against ( Conservative ) government unpreparedness for war in the 1930s and against those who had not done more to solve the nation 's problems during the Depression . |
| 12 | The PAC said that de Klerk had not conceded enough to persuade the movement to bring its exiled cadres home . |
| 13 | The US concession to cease production was a major factor , since it had been developing new binary systems but had not produced enough to replace the existing 25,000 tonnes of stocks . |
| 14 | Shopping , in Canada , had largely gone underground to defeat the climate . |
| 15 | He looked shifty , and the painter had n't known enough to disguise the bulge under his jacket which made his chain of office lie uneven . |
| 16 | A fifth IAEA team which had arrived on Sept. 15 had reportedly attempted also to establish the extent of Iraq 's centrifuge programme revealed by an IAEA inspection team in August [ see p. 38407 ] . |
| 17 | But it is not a solution However successful the Board is in identifying development opportunities , providing capital and training , buildings and equipment , giving assistance with promotion and marketing , every enterprise set up has still to pay the penalty of remoteness , and will go on paying it long after any injection of grants and loans has been exhausted . |