Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apollinaire , on the other hand , although he did not entirely understand the nature of Braque 's new development and failed to realize that even though Braque was beginning to paint largely from memory , his work was still often related directly to his models , instinctively realized that Braque had accomplished something important and original . |
| 2 | It became increasingly influential during the 1970s , due partly to the decline of functionalism , partly to its promise to provide answers which functionalism failed to provide and partly because it was more in keeping with the tenor and mood of the times . |
| 3 | He guessed his Mum would phone when she got to work and then maybe again when she took her break at half-three . |
| 4 | As you know we went to Denmark & got to know & especially our niece , , again . |
| 5 | For these deaths we tried to identify and then interview the people who could tell us most about the last twelve months of the lives of the people who died . |
| 6 | The attacker went up to the woman as she rode around an area of the south London Common known as the arena , blocking her path when she tried to leave and twice attempting to pull her from her horse . |
| 7 | At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared . |
| 8 | During the Second World War the Portuguese Government tried to insist that only neutral ships be used , but this was often ignored . |
| 9 | Detective-Sergeant McWhirter rose to leave and then paused . |
| 10 | Robbie flinched , tried to retreat and once again found there was nowhere to retreat to . |
| 11 | If I tried to teach that here , I should get the sack . ’ |
| 12 | I 've got the ones that tried to eat as well . |
| 13 | The painter promised to return as soon as he was well . |
| 14 | It could well be that I have prejudices about what makes a decent DTP system , but I tried to outline and then to justify them as part of the review . |
| 15 | At Prime Minister 's Question Time , he rose to say that apart from Maastricht , he was fully behind the Prime Minister . |
| 16 | She tried to follow and almost fell down the stairs , gritting her teeth to prevent herself passing out . |
| 17 | Some of his self-portrayal is admittedly utterly unattractive : But are we required or invited to follow or even to surpass the Reeve in hostile judgement of his character ? |
| 18 | Our 1978 data detected four subjects who seemed to acquire and then lose H pylori antibodies . |
| 19 | They seemed to realize that always too late — when it had happened . |
| 20 | The conference in 1968 on the transmission of schizophrenia , reported by Rosenthal and Kety , brought together researchers from each camp , and is probably the time at which all sides came to agree that both genetic and environmental factors must be implicated in some way . |
| 21 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 22 | So it came to pass that somewhere , possibly among the lofty pastures of the mountain herdsmen of Mesopotamia , a better breed of beer was born . |
| 23 | She seemed to know that neither crying nor sulking ever got anyone anywhere . |
| 24 | Her parents , who lived overseas , came to visit and then stay . |
| 25 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 26 | My — my monster , if you will , learnt to talk and even learnt to read . |
| 27 | We deserved to lead but then we sat back . ’ |
| 28 | Catholicism , for centuries , allied itself with conservative forces opposed to progress but now that elements within the church have come out in favour of change , they appear to be opting for a more socialist , rather than capitalist , line . |
| 29 | For bishops , then for presbyters , finally for deacons , Western churches came to expect and ultimately to require celibacy ( though the canonical compulsion was not seriously enforced until medieval times and even thereafter in parts of Europe , like Southern Germany or Wales , it was common for village priests to have a consort and a family , with the support of their flock and the connivance of their bishop who derived income from the annual fee or tax to allow the arrangement ) . |
| 30 | It came to rest and then there was nothing else moving in the intense heat of the late morning Egyptian sun . |