Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness .
2 They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth .
3 He went sick in September and had not returned to work since .
4 He went sick in September and had not returned to work since .
5 Before the War , he had visited Europe , worked in the kitchen of a London hotel , and had then gone to Moscow .
6 She had cleared for Antwerp , where she spent a couple of days , and had then gone to West Africa , calling at several ports before returning to Antwerp .
7 Mrs Knelle 's boy had attended a similar boarding school to the Cistercian college , and had then gone to Maynooth , a prestigious Dublin seminary for priests .
8 She had embraced Simon , patting his face and exclaiming over his bruised eye , and had then flown to Isabel , taking her in her arms and weeping over her enough , so her husband had said , to raise the level of the lake .
9 The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul .
10 Alyson , of Hazel Court , Middlesbrough , said she had had minor illnesses , but had always gone to school .
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