Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped if you got caught to know as little as possible . |
| 2 | We also promised to try to gather together some civilian clothes for them and their companions ; as they were , they looked much too English and conspicuous . |
| 3 | The indoor events had generally been held in the village hall but this had to be booked in advance , so the sudden change involved trying to push upwards of 500 dripping wet people into Greenside Church , a building designed for 300 . |
| 4 | The best thing that could happen for Mr. Lennon and his friends would be if the military wing of Sinn Fein stopped trying to blow up Belfast . |
| 5 | Once the trainer explained how it took time to bring the body up to peak fitness , she stopped trying to keep up and felt better for it . |
| 6 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 7 | I really thought she meant that we 'd arranged to go round there and we had n't gone or something . |
| 8 | This week , he was relief-managing a pub in Rotherham and I 'd arranged to drive over to see him after 11 p.m . |
| 9 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |
| 10 | The circumstances of Japan 's opening to the West thus seemed calculated to reinforce rather than diminish a sense of separateness and need for security in the face of manifestly unequal treatment . |
| 11 | One the manager of a tiling manufacturers in Swindon , the other a colleague of his brother 's : neither of the men he 'd wished to know better . |
| 12 | The orchestration of Cabinet ministers in radio and TV interviews at the weekend seemed designed to damp down growing unrest among Conservative back-benchers about the quality of leadership . |
| 13 | The original auteur theory sought to explain how a director could make a distinctive body of work within a filmmaking system , the Hollywood studios , whose factory-like production processes seemed designed to crush out individuality . |
| 14 | For example , the days of dull , impenetrable forms that seemed designed to obscure rather than to convey information are passing . |
| 15 | I 'd expected to last only a few minutes before my first ducking but the gentle wind was perfect for getting used to the moves . |
| 16 | Is what I 'd expected to happen actually happening ? |
| 17 | He 'd forgotten to shut up his dogs ; they 'd waited patiently outside the front door . |
| 18 | Then she realized she 'd forgotten to kneel down when she came in , and blushing , sank to her knees . |
| 19 | If you heard that someone had taken an amethyst to bed with them , you 'd probably think that they 'd forgotten to take off their jewellery . |
| 20 | We only caught her because she 'd forgotten to take off one of the tags . ’ |
| 21 | She 'd half expected him to barge past her , just like that other time , and she 'd resolved to set about him with her fists if he tried . |
| 22 | As the knife entered her she seemed to try to double up , but it was only a reflex action . |
| 23 | She 'd decided to go along with the FBI for a laugh , and because it might possibly help British Intelligence . |
| 24 | By then we 'd decided to go down separately , in the little passenger pod . |
| 25 | But imagine , if after we 'd persuaded him to say all that , we announced that he 'd decided to go back . |
| 26 | She had the cheek to say he ought to cancel meetings only because of ill-health or for work opportunities , not because he 'd decided to go out with someone else . |
| 27 | We 'd decided to drive up high on to Bodmin Moor , to a remote farm Brian knew . |
| 28 | If he 'd decided to look in , and seen her fully dressed , the game would have been up . |
| 29 | The Edwardian era of peace , pomp and prosperity ( at least for some ) seemed destined to last forever . |
| 30 | The moment seemed destined to stretch on endlessly , but then there was a sharp tap at the door followed by a gasp of embarrassment . |