Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I should have called round sooner but I 've been on holiday and only returned yesterday to hear the news . |
2 | Chris avoided tedium very successfully ; he resisted having an agenda for as long as possible and always refused point-blank to have a vote on anything , so meetings never got hung up on procedure , nor were they subjected to much prior lobbying . |
3 | Profiled foam is layered and permanently welded together to form a very expensive block of media which Cyprio claim is four to five times more effective at filtration than Flocor and their own Cypripack . |
4 | The whole shooting match is being computerised and guides will be held on disc and hopefully updated constantly to ensure the minimum of delay in publishing a new volume . |
5 | Often the most one can learn from them is that the student stuck out the course and actually learned enough to pass the examination , retaining what he learned long enough to get it down on paper . |
6 | Two meetings with Philip during the spring resulted in the truce being prolonged until midsummer but otherwise served only to widen the gap between the two sides . |
7 | Early evidence of the musical progress of the two children survives in the form of a small music book ( 3 ) prepared by Leopold , initially for Nannerl 's use , but subsequently used also to indicate the works learnt by the four-year-old Mozart and to record his earliest compositions , K.1a-d . |