Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large firms attempted to expand production levels but tried to avoid incurring heavy fixed-cost burdens on their own plants in case the boom was only temporary . |
| 2 | He tried to imagine drawing such a scene , but could n't . |
| 3 | Unlike me , he seemed to enjoy appearing foolish , thinking he had become a new , open person . |
| 4 | If species were merely arbitrary groupings adopted to make naming possible , this would not be so . |
| 5 | But you got to start putting all the works in motion oh yes what is the end product or what is the outcome of this and that . |
| 6 | Companies expected to start shipping this new generation of multimedia PC during 1991-2 include Zenith Data Systems , NEC , AT & T , Tandy , Olivetti and CompuAdd . |
| 7 | He also agreed to start contacting some of his old friends whom he had lost touch with when he became unemployed . |
| 8 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 9 | When tartrazine was receiving a bad press a few years ago , the Arnett brothers decided to stop using artificial colours altogether , but the outcome was far from positive . |
| 10 | And sure enough , just as Clelia ripped a crust from a piece of bread and butter , the baby started to make groaning hungry noises , clenching and unclenching its fists , with histrionic desire . |
| 11 | It was a wonder that with his huge fingers he managed to avoid striking two keys at once . |
| 12 | Or was there a previous contracting phase , in which the galaxies managed to avoid hitting each other ? |
| 13 | It rained on and off today but we managed to escape getting wet . |
| 14 | The move comes after bandits stole half of the food aid sent to save starving millions in the devastated country . |
| 15 | COUNTY councillors yesterday agreed to stop subsidising some Essex youth groups , including the Brightlingsea Brass Marching Band . |
| 16 | Now that 's a costly business as we know to our cost , we did n't have to pay the three hundred thousand pounds , the pension fund did , but we had to risk paying those to go to court . |
| 17 | Although the passengers in the ‘ sardine box railway ’ had to sit facing each other on long benches in light too dim to read a newspaper , they could breathe . |
| 18 | Despite the absence of a consensus on who had clinical responsibility for the patients in this scheme — general practitioner , hospital , or both — 28 of the 31 general practitioners wished to continue providing diabetic care within this framework . |
| 19 | We had to quickly change it back , but I only got one hook done up and she had to go holding one hand behind her back for the whole scene . |
| 20 | I tried to warn you off , but no , you had to go playing private detective . |
| 21 | Well I ca came home , I had Derek 's overalls in the the sink , they need washing on their own , and I said to Cla , so I had to go shopping this morning because Claire only worked all day yesterday so she |
| 22 | At the same time they had to continue running existing services , carry through any other major developments already in the pipeline and make progress on resource management and quality assurance systems . |
| 23 | We had potatoes in there for a time but we had to keep hoeing all the weeds out . |
| 24 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 25 | And whether we had to keep running those slots . |
| 26 | You had to keep stirring all the time and , after an hour or so , the milk set solid and then was gently cut to allow the whey to flow out , leaving the curd . |
| 27 | And he revealed : ‘ We sat down and took stock after losing to Leicester and decided that we had to stop feeling sorry for ourselves . ’ |
| 28 | Last year this was arranged as usual but I was so busy looking after my guests during the day that I had to rush getting ready for the evening out . |
| 29 | His family gave him control of his own finances again , so that he had to resume making budgetary decisions in his everyday life , such as choosing between a meal at Claridges or a physiotherapy session . |
| 30 | Nobody wanted to risk losing that interview . |