Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it only managed to pay an interim dividend of 2.75p , compared to 5.5p last time . |
| 2 | This suddenly appeared to confirm an impression gathered by Vanderbank in their contact , a strange sense that his visitor was so agitated as to be trembling in every limb . |
| 3 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 4 | But Charlton scarcely deserved to win an uninspiring game . |
| 5 | The central government thus came to fund an increasing share of local services ( see Layfield Committee , 1976 , Chapter 5 ) . |
| 6 | What if a mutant gene arose that just happened to have an effect , not upon something obvious like eye colour or curliness of hair , but upon meiosis itself ? |
| 7 | The Marquis of Tweeddale , when reporting Murray 's demand to the Duke of Montrose , remarked of the young gentleman who thus intended to begin an academic career that he was ‘ scearce one & twenty but people think themselves fitt for any post in this countrey ’ . |
| 8 | They have sullied the good name of their country ; they desperately wanted to make an impression on Europe and they have — in the most unexpected way . |
| 9 | Little more than a rhythm section revolving around a Lynn Drum , they were Factory 's fairly successful attempt at New York chicness , and Factory desperately wanted to become an international concern . |
| 10 | Bremner once tried to rile an opponent by drawing attention to his pock-marked face by shouting ‘ Go and get it filled in with polyfilla ’ , but the crunch came when he was sent off in 1967 for fouling the Nottingham Forest keeper Grummitt . |
| 11 | He was the manliest fellow that ever tried to pull an effete society together . |
| 12 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 13 | Butch Reynolds yesterday vowed to defy an international ban and continue his quest to run in the US Olympic trials . |
| 14 | By 1838 it was said of him that he ‘ ranks so deservedly high in his profession ’ , and he gradually began to obtain an increasing number of English commissions , so that by 1844 he moved back to London leaving his partner David Bryce in charge of his Edinburgh office . |
| 15 | In Kuwait , a few more chose to join an anti-Iraqi underground resistance movement rather than return to the plane . |
| 16 | Considering that he started his adult life as a wine and spirits salesman , he had certainly learnt the art of showmanship : whatever the fluctuating state of the theatre , he always managed to pay an enormous wage bill for his large casts . |
| 17 | Antoine Eyeless still smiled at what he saw ; he hardly bothered to mumble an absent reply . |
| 18 | In January , February and March there was deep snow , but we still had to spend an hour outside every day . |
| 19 | Obviously , the two do not wholly coincide , since the rite de passage is performed once only — no one , so far as I know , ever had to undergo an initiation ceremony twice ! |
| 20 | If I ever had to qualify an audit report , I 'd run it past Claire first . |
| 21 | I kept reading and my knowledge kept growing , but I still wanted to see an owl 's nest and experience the thrill of actually seeing one in flight , in the feather , so to speak . |
| 22 | Nevertheless he was fond of Kylie and still wanted to have an evening out if they could manage it despite the attention of the ever-present photographers . |
| 23 | I once attempted to make an oval three or four times as large as the one shown in the facing photograph , but it was an abysmal failure , so I would n't recommend it . |
| 24 | Thus while the committees hoped their work would act as an antidote to the apparent tendency ‘ to reduce workpeople to the mental condition of animated machines ’ , they also sought to encourage an all-round improvement in efficiency and a training designed to develop ‘ the habit of regular industry … a healthy growth in mind and body ’ , the inculcation of thrift , and the ever popular ‘ discipline ’ . |
| 25 | Modigliani also tried to sell an old suitcase to an artist friend , but without success . |
| 26 | Furthermore , OECD governments also began to demand an ownership stake in production . |
| 27 | The meeting also decided to establish an economic court , with headquarters in Minsk . |
| 28 | Member states also undertook to form an independent South Asian poverty alleviation committee " to conduct an in-depth study of diverse experiences " of the seven nation grouping . |
| 29 | He also appeared to have an intense hatred of black people for no reason . |
| 30 | A further eight per cent of pupils also appeared to make an assumption about the relationships between cubes and hand spans and concluded that Robert was not taller than Dean . |