Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later she recovered consciousness enough to tell police that her attacker was a ‘ young man ’ . |
| 2 | He found time too to father an illegitimate child , shortly afterwards abandoning both child and mistress for the woman he might well eventually have married , Margot Heinemann . |
| 3 | She herself found time now to help with poorer immigrants . |
| 4 | Recent lack of success on the track made sponsorship hard to get and led to financial problems . |
| 5 | God , when he gave the World in common to all Mankind , commanded Man also to labour , and the penury of his Condition required it of him . |
| 6 | If I had my way I 'd X-ray just to make sure . |
| 7 | Full-back Wadsworth 's ‘ remarkable accuracy ’ turned defence immediately to attack by the way he could ‘ take the ball from an opposing forward and send it to the forward he thinks will make the best use of the pass ’ ( Examiner ) . |
| 8 | His clearances to midfield turned defence immediately to attack . |
| 9 | A SCHOOLGIRL turned superhero yesterday to save her sister 's life . |
| 10 | At the request of the owner of the land , an excavator began work today to discover the extent of the fire . |
| 11 | Irene and Samuel Macaulay defied advice yesterday to travel to Northern Ireland to hear an inquest into their son Donald 's death nearly three years ago , and to lay a wreath at the spot where he lost his life . |
| 12 | Rocking buffetingly in the gimballed seat , Yeremi returned fire wildly to divert attention away from d'Arquebus . |
| 13 | The girls needed money principally to buy singles by Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard , whose brightly smiling photograph presided over their cabin . |
| 14 | Occasionally Finn had an evening off and then he and Melanie played pencil and paper games such as ‘ Battleships ’ , but usually Uncle Philip needed Finn downstairs to help with the puppets . |
| 15 | You needed government for defence to protect you against external enemies and to engage in foreign relations and diplomacy , and you needed government internally to regulate conflicts between states er and to ensure a , a sound economic platform so that you needed er a single authoritative source of currency for example er and a single source of er er tariffs and trade controls . |
| 16 | Many of the day 's activities took place indoors to escape the heavy rain . |
| 17 | Mrs Westaway took Breeze upstairs to wash her hands and face while Roger went round to Sunset Cottage to explain matters to Susan . |
| 18 | Lord Lane , referring to members of the public who attended court regularly to follow cases , made special mention of a Mr Maurice Mahoney . |
| 19 | Siobhan : Well , I looked sorta Hard to Get , son So he straightened up |
| 20 | Thus Goody & Watt ( 1963 ) and Goody ( 1977 ) suggest that analytic thinking followed the acquisition of written language ‘ since it was the setting down of speech that enabled man clearly to separate words , to manipulate their order and to develop syllogistic forms of reasoning ’ ( Goody , 1977 : 11 ) . |
| 21 | 193 , that a member state might make the right of its fishing vessels to fish against national quotas subject to those vessels ' having a real economic link with that state , it took care expressly to stipulate that the link had to concern only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries : see p. 222 , para. 27 . |
| 22 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 23 | THE commodity group , Berisford International , looked set yesterday to take over C&J Clark , the family-controlled shoemaker that has been wracked by internal feuding . |
| 24 | LADBROKES , reportedly swamped with election bets , ( at highly-profitable margins ) , still took time yesterday to take anticipatory action before the participation of Musicale and Hatoof in today 's 1,000 Guineas trials at Newbury and Maisons-Laffitte respectively . |
| 25 | Wayne never found his rhythm on his serve and he did not get into the match until he broke me at 5–3 , but I did good enough to win , ’ said the 24-year-old 1991 Wimbledon champion . |
| 26 | Over the issue of the future ownership of Mar Lodge , which contains three of Britain 's five highest mountains , Mr. Lang for months resisted pressure even to meet with the conservation groups who would like to rescue it . |
| 27 | Maria objected strongly but Noreen had said it would only be for a little while until she went back to school in New York , now that Noreen had money enough to get them their own place . |
| 28 | How was it she had heart even to look at me , as tormented as she was ? ’ |
| 29 | You hardly had room enough to do your job , but you dare n't tell 'em to get out o' the way ; or else they 'd say they 'd as much right to be there as you had ! |
| 30 | At last she had breath enough to say what had to be said . |