Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This difference is significant ( p <0.05 ) ; however , the two groups did not differ significantly in their ability to recognise speakers 1 and 3 , whom they overwhelmingly failed to identify as black . |
| 2 | Philip Mairet , the editor , who was sympathetic to my views , tried to persuade Eliot to contribute his , and he eventually agreed to do so . |
| 3 | They eventually agreed to walk down the driveway and pose for pictures . |
| 4 | Dot in the conservatory watched as Loopy Lil slowly tried to pick up the unsteady tray of china . |
| 5 | Unsuspecting , and being a decent , trusting sort of man , I foolishly agreed to tag along and help . |
| 6 | The government of course are getting capital receipt now , but sale we only expected to bring in some seven hundred million , it was thought the budget made for three or four days against the to be measure but there are only much more important arguments in the financial consideration in my opinion . |
| 7 | Kirov not only got to travel freely within military establishments and top security complexes , he was known and respected by important public figures . |
| 8 | So got to continue on there on behaviours recognize people that you see around about recognize to be aggressive , some as assertive some as passive . |
| 9 | The woman was wearing a red hat which Katharine impertinently asked to try on . |
| 10 | The French tract , while not primarily concerned with the sea and the exercise of sea power , none the less tried to show not merely France 's equality but its superiority over England in matters maritime . |
| 11 | Four Ministers apparently tried to cover up the truth by hiding under a cloak of secrecy . |
| 12 | All of these factors taken together helped to bring about a national sense of economic and political malaise . |
| 13 | In truth , he merely tried to break down social barriers and taboos that surrounded sex in order to remove what he saw as a cause for psychological problems of the time . |
| 14 | No one much seemed to think so . |
| 15 | Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half . |
| 16 | It was a shocking thing , no doubt , but compared with her future , which suddenly seemed to hold out enticing prospects of a new and exciting life , it had retreated into the background . |
| 17 | 2 Of itself , however , the reality of group activity was probably of less significance than was the fact that the established theories of British politics suddenly came to appear as " wrong " , so prompting the search for new ways to make sense of things . |
| 18 | The presence of that racist homophobic scumbag Axl Rose did little to enhance the credibility of an event that merely seemed to provide yet another photo opportunity for fat-walleted pop stars to offload their liberal guilt on the global stage . |
| 19 | When the disappointed Cov fans started sneaking out before the end , the stand we were in seemed to have just as many Leeds as Cov fans in it . |
| 20 | She switched on the wall light over the table rather than the bright central strip , hoping it would look coaler ; but it only seemed to bring up the shadows . |
| 21 | We got on very well together and suddenly began to realise how strange and curious it all was that we had gone to separate schools . ’ |
| 22 | April suddenly began to behave very badly . |
| 23 | Whether because of the thrill of stripping off her knickers so barbarously , or of having her helpless , he suddenly began to breathe quickly , and his prong swelled to working proportions . |
| 24 | ’ Chaman suddenly began to look rather sad . |
| 25 | Faye nodded and suddenly began to cry quietly . |
| 26 | At five to eight , the deadline , I decided to make a run for it , and was within sight of the doors when , without any warning at all , my stomach muscles suddenly began to roll up like a shop blind and I was violently and horribly sick . |
| 27 | Roger suddenly began to struggle out of his wet shirt . |
| 28 | Staring at Ellie in astonishment , the older woman suddenly began to laugh quietly . |
| 29 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 30 | I recently had an interesting encounter with the honeybee and it only served to point out that regardless of size the degree of intelligence is quite extraordinary . |