Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | After dinner they had got lost , because Betty had fallen asleep and failed to note the few signposts and correlate them with the route on the map . |
2 | Drawing on North American experience , the Commission concluded that ‘ poor management was an important contributory factor to New York 's problems ’ , and sought to apply the same lessons here ( p. 2 ) . |
3 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
4 | Quickly I seized needle and thread and began to insert a few sutures in the vulva . |
5 | We formed an act and started to get a few dates . |
6 | ‘ Anyway , after about six months I had saved several thousand dollars and decided to spend a few weeks drifting across the country to the West Coast . |