Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to shout like the two of them , but my cry came out strangled and distorted ; I just could n't express my anger in English . |
| 2 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 3 | ‘ Punishment enough , I think , ’ he said softly , as his hands traced a deliberately sensuous path over the clinging wetness of her shirt and came to rest for the briefest of moments on the raised outline of her breasts . |
| 4 | It happened to work for the two of us , we were lucky . |
| 5 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 6 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |
| 7 | Almost imperceptibly the mood of the men began to change in the 1790s in favour of more continuous combination . |
| 8 | In the meantime , opinion began to move towards the last of the possibilities — and the one which suited Baldwin the best — a minority Labour Government . |
| 9 | After due consideration she decided to go from the sublime to the ridiculous . |
| 10 | And while the Pitts-buggers went wild with delight , Uncle Mick went wild with frustration , and started to remonstrate with the biggest of the pack . |
| 11 | ‘ He chose to look for the spiritual through the physical , like Rimbaud and Kerouac . |
| 12 | They chose to live in the grander of the two houses , and Wood Dalling was demoted to a farmhouse and remained thus until comparatively recently . |
| 13 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 14 | Whatever resources were devoted to the transformation approach , the bulk of agricultural production continued to come from the millions of small farming families who were adjusting their forms of production only slowly . |
| 15 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 16 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |