Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage . |
| 2 | A groom ran forward to hold their horses while another ambled off to tell Sir Thomas of their arrival . |
| 3 | At further visits one cow had to be shot and another put down to relive suffering . |
| 4 | The Japanese began actively to develop Formosa after the appointment of General Kodama Gentaró0 ( 1852–1906 ) as governor in 1898 . |
| 5 | Parliament on May 26 voted overwhelmingly to legalize brothels and sex clubs . |
| 6 | She seemed so sanguine that he started to enjoy his leave and they all three went off to see Mona in Jermyn Street , who greeted them with her usual generous hospitality , very little of which was at her or their expense , but who had not seen Charles since his transformation from 2nd Lieutenant to Guardsman . |
| 7 | The new governments all moved swiftly to restore relations with Israel which they had all , with the exception of Romania , broken off during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war [ see p. 22105 ] . |
| 8 | The new Labour government elected in June 1992 moved quickly to repair Israel 's relations with the USA , announcing that it would halt large-scale government investment in settlements [ see p. 38946 ] . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the considerable infrastructural investment of railways is not needed , or , at least , such fixed costs are not all charged directly to bus companies . |
| 10 | Outside , at eight o'clock , the streets were already busy with sweepers , a watering-cart , shop assistants , police blowing whistles , bicycles , scooters , not many cars , the voices of the lottery ticket vendors , schoolchildren screaming as they ran to school , carts pulled by donkeys braying , trucks hooting , an ambulance siren — it all added up to utter confusion . |
| 11 | Oh no no , it was really a happy-go-lucky time you , you had to be alive in those days to appreciate it , it , people sort of got together and it , it 's a different attitude to life today er much more friendly people there and they , we all worked together we all pulled together to defeat Hitler this , this was the thing in those days . |
| 12 | They all looked up to see Simon Swan standing over them . |
| 13 | ‘ They all reported to the police station they 'd been assigned to and they all went on to stand trial . ’ |
| 14 | Paratroopers piled out of their vehicles , many ran forward to make arrests , but others rushed to the street corners . |
| 15 | We all chipped in to help Jack pay the bill . |
| 16 | Although the CSCE committee meeting on Sept. 16 decided not to accept Macedonia as a regular member of the CSCE , on Sept. 18 in Prague the CSCE crisis committee on Yugoslavia decided to strengthen its permanent mission in the republic . |
| 17 | I first learned there to love poetry . |
| 18 | A spate of concerts and special church services in 1923 set out to bring Byrd more securely back into the public gaze , but arguably the most influential and enduring achievements of the tercentenary were four recordings of Byrd 's vocal music sung by the English Singers and issued in the HMV label . |
| 19 | In accordance with the recommendation made by the BCP central committee in December 1989 [ see p. 37109 ] , the National Assembly on Jan. 15 voted overwhelmingly to repeal Paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 1 of the Constitution , whereby the BCP was defined as the " leading force in society and in the state " and as guiding " the construction of an advanced socialist society in close fraternal co-operation with the BAPU [ Bulgarian Agrarian People 's Union — hitherto the only other legal political party — ibid . ] " . |
| 20 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 21 | Before routine use of prophylactic antibiotics we noted two infective complications , namely Straphylococcal septicaemia and cellulitis at the jugular vein puncture site ; both responded promptly to appropriate antibiotic treatment . |