Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb infin] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the idea did appeal to Morgan : a Kissinger-like shuttle . |
| 2 | No , Charles certainly did object to Ivan 's insults , and Ivan 's divination of Charles 's weak spots was uncannily accurate . |
| 3 | The European Commission did object to aspects of a proposed link between Fiat , Italy 's big car maker , and Alcatel-Alsthom , a French electronics giant . |
| 4 | He did speak to Murray on the phone but says he can not clear the mystery until he has a chance to study the report in detail . |
| 5 | ‘ But you say you did speak to Hilary Frome earlier tonight ? ’ |
| 6 | I did speak to Paula yesterday , and she said she was gon na speak to you Suzanne |
| 7 | What did occur to Fabia just then was that , given that she was supposed to be the journalist , she was making a dreadful mess of it . |
| 8 | Erm , I think at the back of some people 's minds there was this pressure , you know that 's why a few did return to work and I mean I can understand some of them returning to work but not necessarily for the reasons they 've stated . |
| 9 | In fact the painter never did return to Koraloona — and Marama , his mistress , always thought he had abandoned her , and over the years became obsessed by bitterness at the betrayal , for she never knew that in 1903 the painter had died , after she had given birth to a daughter , a baby girl so white that her mother christened her Tiare , after the beautiful white flower of the South Seas . |
| 10 | Further , when the Visigoths did return to Gaul , it was to an area where Athaulf had once established his court . |
| 11 | Deborah Coleman was one of the highest-flying women in Silicon Valley with the title chief financial officer until she suddenly took a long sabbatical a couple of years ago : she did return to Apple Computer Inc and became vice-president for information systems , but quit again suddenly last week ; she has now resurfaced at Tektronix Inc as vice-president for materials operations , which is a new post . |
| 12 | His assistant , Tony Rogers , added : ‘ We did apologise to passengers and the majority accepted it was a case of high spirits . ’ |
| 13 | It also transpired that the couple owned their own house and if they did move to Huntingdon , they would have to live in a council house . |
| 14 | After some uncertainty as to whether the Meiji constitution applied to Japan 's colonial possessions , it was decided that it did apply to Korea and Taiwan . |
| 15 | if income arises in an overseas company owned by an overseas settlement the income can not be taxed upon the settlor under this section ( the " see-through " provision which is now abolished in s681(1) ( b ) never did apply to Chapter II ) ; 2. no reference is made to the domicile of the settlor in Chapter II of Part XV unlike Chapter III ( see s681(1) ) ; 3. no reference is made in s663 to the Case under which the tax charge is to arise . |
| 16 | However , the limitation on recovery did apply to interest which accrued before October 1984 , but not to that accruing after that date . |
| 17 | What did happen to Manitas de Plata or Julian Bream ? |
| 18 | ‘ What did happen to Miss Bird 's husband ? ’ asked Stella . |
| 19 | Whatever did happen to chivalry ? |
| 20 | Mena 's everyday face is just stubborn , you could call it proud — she 's a countrywoman from a good province as they say — but Anna took to it , she did take to people — her infatuations Constanza says — she took to my father when he was a very young man and he was n't so good-looking either . |
| 21 | These results are perfectly consistent with observations [ 13 ] indicating that the mutant RNA polymerases did respond to CRP activation at the gal promoter ( and more generally at type II promoters ) , but not at the lac promoter ( at type I promoters ) . |
| 22 | I did hint to Father Donovan that here was a brand ready for plucking , but Michael knows when to leave well alone . |
| 23 | But he did go to church , so perhaps she was right . |
| 24 | If he did go to Medewich on Thursday . |
| 25 | Well do you know I never knew this I was recently hit by a car and , although not seriously hurt , I did go to casualty to have some cuts cleaned and an X-ray taken to check I had n't broken my ankle . |
| 26 | So David did go to work there , though not without protest . |
| 27 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 28 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 29 | He did go to school |
| 30 | I did go to night school there to learn joinery . |