Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I think the thing is if , if you 'd 've demonstrated that or , or got to the stage of saying well alright , you know , if you 're retiring tomorrow how much money do you need to , to live on |
| 2 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 3 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 4 | On this canal poundlocks were used for the first time in England , i.e. , an upper and a lower gate fitted with sluices and enclosing a chamber into which boats passed to be raised or lowered to the next level . |
| 5 | After forceful driving by the male , eggs are laid in , or moved to the brooding tunnels or cave and protected carefully mainly by the male , sometimes apparently actually sitting on the eggs . |
| 6 | The mandible should not be glued or plastered to the vault . |
| 7 | On the other hand , a holiday video which is basically a travelogue will probably need the help of sub-titles , or a commentary which can either be ad-libbed at each showing or added to the sound track later . |
| 8 | One working day 's notice will normally be required before any request is serviced or added to the Computer Group task list . |
| 9 | Proprietary ( and some home-based ) remedies can be used in two ways — in a short-term bath , or added to the pond . |
| 10 | For example in Estate Agents documents the phrases ‘ within easy walking distance ’ and ‘ sought after ’ are very common , and for use in such a context , these would be included in or added to the compound lexicon . |
| 11 | Numerous chapels are set in or added to the walls but the chief area for this is the chevet . |
| 12 | He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room . |
| 13 | Its purpose is chiefly to add entries for new words and new meanings of words : ‘ new ’ implying that they came into existence , or came to the attention of scholars , after the relevant part of OED was published , and therefore could not be inserted in the main work . |
| 14 | Women were referred to the clinic by a gynaecologist or other specialist ( 302 , 61% ) or by a general practitioner ( 101 , 20% ) or came to the clinic on their own initiative ( 85 , 17% ) . |
| 15 | It 's in these areas that the ocean heat is lost or vented to the atmosphere as this heat vent was carried into the ocean in the lower latitudes . |
| 16 | ‘ For more than four hours Tally and I lounged around in the carry-out , talking , drinking coffee , watching people come and go , watching other hangers-on as they bantered with the waitresses , horsed around among themselves , or danced to the juke-box . |
| 17 | Often on a business transfer , parties to contracts with the vendor will need to consent to or agree to the contract being assigned or novated to the purchaser . |
| 18 | The seizure of the strategic eastern town of Abéché on Nov. 30 effectively broke the resistance of Habré 's forces , who were reported to have fled in large numbers or defected to the MPS . |
| 19 | Or defected to the Soviet Union … |
| 20 | Whilst their families were moved into tower blocks or disappeared to the suburbs , skinheads tried to ‘ magically ’ reclaim this lost solidarity of the parent culture . |
| 21 | The line itself must be securely tied or spliced to the swivel . |
| 22 | related to the existing er agricultural or related to the agricultural buildings , that will be put up before this is built . |
| 23 | Gunfire was directed even at them and they fled or fell to the ground . |
| 24 | I never read the papers very much , or listened to the news . |
| 25 | You could have got a T V or listened to the radio . |
| 26 | There has also been a change in the holiday habits of the Madeirans themselves , who used to retire to their summer villas at Monte or Santo da Serra to escape the heat or flocked to the rocky shoreline around Funchal to bathe every day . |
| 27 | If everybody here just rang up the Foreign Office , rang up their MP , or wrote to the Prime Minister — it 's everybody 's right to do that — and said ‘ What 's happening to John McCarthy ? |
| 28 | Members based outside of London used the telephone service or wrote to the library for answers to 1,465 queries about banking practice . |
| 29 | With no choice , he told her and while he never discovered what she did or said to the girl or her parents , the girl never spoke to him again , indeed , never even looked in his direction . |
| 30 | With Gide and many others in mind , Said observes that virtually no European writer who wrote on or travelled to the Orient in the period after 1800 exempted himself or herself from a quest for sexual experience unobtainable in Europe : |