Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gans tried not to act like a formal researcher : |
| 2 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 3 | To my left the shallow ridge that formed an edge of the valley rose up to finish at a shallow bump . |
| 4 | A few tried vainly to coalesce into a hardier entity . |
| 5 | Celie strived not to conform to a stereotyped henpecked housebound wife . |
| 6 | Filmer came alone to sit at an untenanted table , ordering eggs and coffee from Oliver without looking at him . |
| 7 | She screamed , a cry that seemed not to come from a human throat , a deathyell of mortal agony and longing . |
| 8 | The long skeletal head and ghostly hands seemed now to belong to a bad dream . |
| 9 | In the 1930s you learnt how to behave as a human being from movies . |
| 10 | Back in the village , she pulled up outside the paper shop , which turned out to double as a general store , and went in . |
| 11 | I also showed how to arrive at a successful transfer price where there was no market for the intermediate product . |
| 12 | In his eagerness to amass a personal fortune to fund his politics , he borrowed heavily to invest in an obscure Canadian company called Aquablast . |
| 13 | The day drew on , and Tagan scouted ahead to look for a possible camping site . |
| 14 | In the corner there was a discreet datalink terminal got up to look like a '30s radiogram . |
| 15 | In time , Keating shuffled off to spectate for a rival weekly but , as a kindly man , he offered encouragement to his successor . |
| 16 | She waited for a moment and then walked off to stand in a different part of the ship . |
| 17 | Ironically enough , on recovery her parents were gentler with her and began gradually to compromise to a certain extent , and now she is at a college of further education . |
| 18 | Today , manual remuage is still widely used , but it is carried out on specially designed wooden boards , hinged together to stand like an inverted ‘ V ’ and known as pupitres ( the French for reading desks ) . |
| 19 | The council decided not to appeal during a special meeting of its policy and resources committee . |
| 20 | West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl broke off his visit to Poland on Friday and flew home to deal with a dramatic political situation after East Germany opened its borders to the West . |
| 21 | The Cabinet briefly discussed and rejected a dissolution and election on the issue and decided instead to try for a decisive election victory within three years . |
| 22 | ‘ The shop frontage , ’ the young man went on to explain in a tired voice , ‘ is twenty-two feet . |
| 23 | She then went on to appear before a packed lecture theatre at the Physicians Hall to receive her award and the Edinburgh Medal from the Lord Provost and to deliver the traditional Edinburgh Medal Address . |
| 24 | We obeyed and went in to sit in a sombre half-circle round the fire . |
| 25 | High red serpents swayed up to hang for a lingering minute and fade ; busy green heads with white tails thrashed hither and thither and then dived to death . |
| 26 | Once it was dark , Jane went out to sit on a low wall where she could have a good view . |
| 27 | He had come down to the gallery to join the houseparty , he thought simply to look at a new sculpture , before they all returned to the house for luncheon . |
| 28 | He was taken to the local police station , charged and bailed out to return at a later date . |
| 29 | We learned how to bake in a Dutch oven and produce wonderful things . |
| 30 | The kingdom of Italy , the second big new state to emerge from the wars of the mid-century , had only to deal with a few French-speaking communities and some Germans in Venetia ; it did not yet have to face a minorities problem . |