Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Montenegro had to make do with about three-fifths of her earlier gains but Bulgaria with less still . |
| 2 | However , the coalition was then split again , over telecommunications contracts signed unilaterally by the ( Flemish ) Posts and Telecommunications Minister Marcel Colla ( which would have benefited Flemish companies ) , and over the allocation of television licence fees to the regions ( which Wallonia needed to help pay teachers ' wages — see also p. 38465 ) . |
| 3 | Annabel did let slip that the first thing she had done when she packed up tennis as a career was to lose weight . |
| 4 | Arthur had helped get her out of occupied Austria as the war broke out . |
| 5 | Instead TOTP had to make do with a telephone interview and video . |
| 6 | But from what Cliff had let slip he had been a poor father , an unpopular and unsuccessful schoolmaster yet with unreasonable ambitions for his only son . |
| 7 | Another one to fall by the wayside with a 78 was Ray Floyd , who had picked up the US Open title Norman had let slip through his grasp a few weeks before . |
| 8 | The name may not have changed but the new Bob will earn £200,000 a year , the old Bob had to make do with quite a few bob less — £93,000 . |
| 9 | In an unguarded moment , Iris had let drop that , while Bonard was paying her expenses , she was receiving no fee to run the course . |
| 10 | In the meantime Lowell had made do with powdered milk for both him and the animal . |
| 11 | While the problems of the overall balance of payments hardly came as a surprise ( though the speed with which Lend-Lease ended did come as a shock ) , the problem of the dollar was less readily anticipated . |
| 12 | Oh er Sandra went to see see Jason or anybody |
| 13 | The separation of West Germany from East Germany had helped guarantee Western security , given Germans an identification with Western values and aided the Franco-German rapprochement , allowing Germans to be safely integrated into the Atlantic alliance . |
| 14 | Because when , without so much as a scrap of protest , Ven had let go of her just now , she had started to get the idea that perhaps he had n't desired her anywhere near as much as she had wanted him . |
| 15 | This view of him had been built up gradually , partly as a result of that interview with Rodriguez back in Mexico City , and partly from the bits and pieces of information Ward had let fall . |
| 16 | In 1958 William Burroughs had moved to Paris , where Allen Ginsberg had helped set up the ‘ Beat Hotel ’ that persisted into the early 1960s . |
| 17 | Giardini of course shared his countrymen 's disdain for the German interloper J. C. Bach , who had already achieved modest successes on the London stage : in July 1763 he wrote that Bach had departed to ‘ great regrets and lamentations , but easily dried up without a great handkerchief ’ In the end London had to make do with Vento , who was largely responsible for stitching up patchwork operas from assorted numbers that Leone also helped to collect on his travels . |
| 18 | Jazz appropriated Mr Nicholson 's carpet slippers and Hoomey had to make do with a pair of fluffy mules which the missing Mrs Nicholson had left behind . |
| 19 | Thus , with the earldom of Essex passing to the descendants of Geoffrey 's first marriage , John had to make do with such manors as Aylesbury and Steeple Claydon in Buckinghamshire , Exning in Suffolk , and Cherhill and Winterslow in Wiltshire , the last the only part of the honour of Berkhamsted that he obtained . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left . |