Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and then we 'd used to repeat right the way through the day , we had a bus say for sixteen hours and it erm repeated itself every hour and that was boring job just writing it down and repeating it . |
| 2 | When he 'd managed to count down the numbers and identify the exact address that she 'd named , he felt something go cold inside him . |
| 3 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 4 | Finally she felt compelled to pick up the conversation , make some pretence at normality . |
| 5 | Papa and Mama , informed , were coming over , the lawyers had gathered to draw up the marriage settlement , everything seemed set fair . |
| 6 | This had to be her mother 's bed , she surmised , and the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtains . |
| 7 | I thought the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtain , and I was just about to do it when I heard his voice . |
| 8 | In April 1945 , Truman 's government played host to representatives from 50 countries at San Francisco who had met to draw up the Charter for the United Nations . |
| 9 | Reports in early March had indicated that the IAEA had sought to play down the significance of a recent report submitted to the UN in which it was claimed that Iraq was offering " better co-operation " to IAEA inspectors . |
| 10 | The hijackers , who had threatened to blow up the aircraft , surrendered to Thai authorities in the early hours of Oct. 7 ; none of the 79 passengers or four crew was injured . |
| 11 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 12 | The restoration of the monarchy , he said , would bring back the communism and anarchy which had threatened to take over the country before the Civil War . |
| 13 | In the meantime various troubles had flared up throughout the world -America had become involved in Korea ; France was involved in both Algiers ( who were seeking independence ) and Indo-China ; whilst Britain became involved in retaliation against the Egyptian government which had threatened to take over the Suez Canal . |
| 14 | Just before that vote Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats , the junior coalition partner , had reached agreement on tax reforms which had been the subject of three months of negotiation and which had threatened to bring down the government . |
| 15 | Also in January I reported that the Queen had decided to give up the bottle . |
| 16 | It was also reported that the Governor of Sokoto had decided to take up the issue with the federal authorities in Lagos . |
| 17 | Albert Popple had decided to go down the Lamb and Flag after walking round the block several times . |
| 18 | However , by the end of May , the Russian government had decided to pull out the troops . |
| 19 | The USA had moved to send out the invitations only after the Israelis and the Arabs had failed to agree on a time and venue . |
| 20 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 21 | The artillery officer wondered why no one had thought to blow up the bridge which crossed the River Sambre in the centre of the town , but he supposed there must be fords close to Charleroi which would have made the destruction of the fine stone bridge into a futile and even petulant gesture . |
| 22 | ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . ) |
| 23 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 24 | Six inches of concrete , luckily not too dense , had been used to top off whatever he had used to fill in the excavation . |
| 25 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 26 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 27 | Mick Houghton , who also works for the fashionable label Blast First , was asked why he had agreed to take on The Wedding Present . |
| 28 | ‘ So Miss Morgan would have got the lion 's share of the other two hundred thousand even if she had agreed to break up the trust ? |
| 29 | If by some chance the Poles had agreed to hand over the city it is quite possible that even at this late stage NSDAP support in the city would have evaporated . |
| 30 | The finance divisional manager , Stephen Hughes , said 246 tenants had agreed to pay off the arrears in instalments , and it was hoped more would follow suit . |