Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first it looked harmless enough , and did not even seem to be coming from the mountain . |
| 2 | She was very shy , and did not often speak to anyone outside the family . |
| 3 | William Lee of the Nottinghamshire parish of Calverton had invented the basic frame in 1589 but the craft first took hold in London and did not really spread to the Midlands until after the restoration of Charles II . |
| 4 | He was a good PTI , he made PT fun and did n't just stick to PT and running — but there was no messing about either and he doubled them across the barracks to the football pitch , Where in the next half hour they worked as hard playing football as they would have done in the gymnasium . |
| 5 | So , eventually , the guy said : ‘ No , I 'm not going ’ to the teacher and the teacher turned his back on him and did n't ever speak to him again . |
| 6 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 7 | I thought it sounded a bit slushy and did n't really relate to it . |
| 8 | A young , innocent man , very knowledgeable about ferrets , the driver had led me across a scrubby field that led to the riverbank and had then triumphantly pointed to a weathered stone below a thorn bush . |
| 9 | A naturally shy man , who does n't boast about his achievements , and had never previously agreed to any magazine interview , Zarei will not say who the winning runner was , and is reluctant to talk about the times he has put sportsmanship before victory , unless his motives are misinterpreted . |
| 10 | Charles Caldecott , who owned the Whetstone Park Stud , was an odd character whom Kelly had met a couple of times and had never really taken to . |
| 11 | Some while earlier , a weary-sounding Lewis had informed Morse that Mr Eddie Stratton had gone off somewhere just after lunchtime — from the railway station — and had still not returned to The Randolph . |