Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He held his shoulders well back and straight , and although Camille had never got close enough to make certain , she was convinced that he strode with his eyes half closed and a small , smart smile on his lips : unique , invincible , the splendid solitary leader of the procession , never to be challenged , usurped or tripped up . |
| 32 | Baldersdale was largely unaffected by contact with outside influences — to travel further than Barnard Castle , a prim and pretty little market town which could scarcely claim to be cosmopolitan , was virtually unheard of and such visitors as there were never stayed long enough to impart revolutionary new ways and ideas . |
| 33 | Doctors and physiotherapists were never allowed close enough to examine him . |