Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Doyle 's experience it rarely helped to develop the human side of the ‘ rehabilitated ’ man . |
| 2 | They also powerfully helped to shape the subsequent roles and responsibilities of the major providers during the period in the District . |
| 3 | Now schools can ‘ opt out ’ from local authority control , so that the people who care most about children 's futures — especially parents and teachers — are together empowered to make the key decisions . |
| 4 | Yet they obviously failed to grasp the political and administrative realities within which state medicine was increasingly caught in the 1870s and 1880s . |
| 5 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 6 | At first the party leaders resisted such demands as being likely to destroy the party truce and so tried to avoid the public discussion of . |
| 7 | Claudine suddenly seemed to notice the flustered looks that Jenna still had , although Alain was as cool as if his heated lovemaking had never happened . |
| 8 | The silver denarius was not established on a permanent footing until the Second Pubic War ( fig.39 : c , d ) , and gold only came to dominate the imperial coinage and advertise the power and majesty of Rome with the extension of the Empire ( fig.39 : e , f ) . |
| 9 | The anniversaries , called ‘ birthdays ’ , of the martyrs were carefully remembered , and so came to create the earliest church calendars ( so that the historian can know on what day of what month a martyr died , but not necessarily in what year , that being of no liturgical significance ) . |
| 10 | So came to do the other side , went to the same routine the nipple snapped off . |
| 11 | She loved the country life of the estate and could have been entirely happy were it not for Stephen 's habitual absences which only seemed to emphasise the constant presence of his mother . |
| 12 | To her disappointment Nahum only seemed to visit the old and sick , and after the first few days he no longer took her with him , having suffered embarrassment each time he introduced his new wife whose youth could n't be disguised . |
| 13 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 14 | Maha tried to join them but was cast out and good-humouredly began to push the loaded craft into the water . |
| 15 | The second was the decision of the American Supreme Court that they should divest themselves of monopoly control of the cinema chains which , as Heston said , was in hindsight a death blow which merely served to hasten the financial decline of each and every studio . |
| 16 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 17 | Outwardly much appeared to remain the same . |
| 18 | I took a last look round , then only had to kick the top edge of the kite up a little for it to take the wind and lift . |
| 19 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
| 20 | I suddenly wanted to see the green-leafed Devon river banks and to feel the grey sharp waves of the Channel buffeting my hull . |
| 21 | He tearfully said he only wanted to give the innocent insurance agent a ‘ headache ’ and wept so much in court that police branded him the ‘ cry-baby killer ’ . |
| 22 | Her hands moved to unbutton his shirt , and , that done , she not only wanted to stroke the golden down on his body , but to see that body , to see him . |
| 23 | Whether she ever told what she 'd found I never discovered , but for my own part I only wanted to forget the whole frightening incident . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , of course I did — and I can pop down to the church and see you come out , ’ she offered impulsively , which thankfully seemed to satisfy the other girl . |
| 25 | He soon got to know the other joggers of the district . |
| 26 | Although such incidents rankled , the cutter crews ' sense of humour soon surfaced to erase the bad memories . |
| 27 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 28 | Iron-nickel , with the silicates and non-metallic substances in gaseous form , soon rose to form the outer mantle of the Earth . |
| 29 | The Habsburgs thus tried to isolate the various movements of national autonomy from their peasant base , and the Russian tsar did the same in Poland . |
| 30 | I just tried to do the best I could . |