Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nigel got taken home to meet her parents next . |
| 32 | Remarkably , by the time the boy reached London , contrary to the general prognosis , the ulcer had healed sufficiently to avoid any major surgery . |
| 33 | Last year , it seemed he had matured enough to fulfil himself but a cruel succession of injuries denied him . |
| 34 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 35 | Later still , by the mid 1960s when the various organisations within the broad front of the civil rights movements had developed sufficiently to conduct their own educational programs , Highlander changed direction again in the thrust of its educational programs . |
| 36 | Before breakfast on Saturday 18 August 1759 Boscawen was in sight of his quarry , or part of it , for eight of the Frenchmen had broken away to make for Cadiz . |
| 37 | Had the time come to forget the promise they had made each other , the guarantee they had given never to meet or speak ? |
| 38 | He picked up the two grips and the empty suitcase Tom Rooney had given then to lend credence to their story . |
| 39 | These were groups of people with a common bond who had joined together to make regular contributions into a pool from which they could borrow at low rates of interest . |
| 40 | When the old Major , so soon to die , had travelled secretly to see his son and meet her , she recognized his courtesy because he was a gentleman , but there was no welcome and no warmth in him . |
| 41 | The once gleaming whitewash was dark and smoke-blackened ; in places the plaster had fallen away to reveal the messy rubble-walling beneath . |
| 42 | But then , when he had leaned forward to brush her cheek , her neck , she had moved back as if he had transgressed , and all his knowledge of her had been shattered by her refusal . |
| 43 | The man in the driving-seat had leaned across to watch him through the hood-slits . |
| 44 | Then her face cleared ; when she had leaned across to kiss Richard she must have nudged it off , and no doubt she would find it in her car when he brought it back in the morning . |
| 45 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 46 | McGee , who had come downstairs to test the quality of the sherry while Mrs Quickly , the plumper of the two cooks , stood at the back door fervently pulling on a cigarette , leaped to his feet , pulled at his black tie and took the back stairs two at a time . |
| 47 | Whoever she was living with , roused by the smell of burning , had come downstairs to discover her slumped across the hearth with her head pressed up against a glowing electric fire . |
| 48 | The other alternatives were to shoot the plane down before it landed or blow it up on the ground at Teheran airport when all the Imam 's followers had come forward to welcome him . |
| 49 | Chain-stores and industries may take full-page advertisements in newspapers to proclaim their greenness , but no millionaire had come forward to offer a share of his eco-sound profits . |
| 50 | Local councillor Michael Wigley said since the village was included in the blacklist of Darlington Cats Protection League , many residents had come forward to protest . |
| 51 | That was the question that the Alton Carnival Committee were beginning to ask themselves , when they found that no girls had come forward to enter the 1962 Carnival Queen contest . |
| 52 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
| 53 | Orcadai was conducting an inspection in the barracks , and Jehan had come here to wait upon him . |
| 54 | It was clear that this was not what she had come here to talk about . |
| 55 | She had come here to meet Silas , but definitely not to set her cap at him . |
| 56 | She had come here to confront him , not to — to be forced to endure the sight of his nudity … |
| 57 | ‘ You said your name was Millet … you said that you had come here to find out more about our son . ’ |
| 58 | He would not state his business , but he had come here to find you , and came to me as having been advertised as executor of Lady Merchiston 's will . ’ |
| 59 | He found aspects of Zhukov 's business highly distasteful , even though he had come expressly to use them . |
| 60 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |