Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the Venetian government always felt its position to be somewhat ambiguous and was correspondingly sensitive to anything that seemed even remotely to challenge it . |
| 2 | Fine moondust billowed high across the ancient plains of the moon 's dark crescent , expanding in boiling clouds that went high enough to catch the rays of the sun . |
| 3 | They also display all the features of a volcanicity that lasted late enough to terrify Palaeolithic man and perhaps to provide him with his fire . |
| 4 | She remembered her last encounter with Alexander and failed yet again to understand her own behaviour . |
| 5 | He nodded and crept forward carefully to examine the driver . |
| 6 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 7 | At least Dr Neil and Miss Mates were sitting ; McAllister was standing at the kitchen door , and moved sedately forward to answer the urgent bell . |
| 8 | Then she raised her head and shouted loud enough to make the man on the other side of the river glance towards them , ‘ With every day they waste , ’ before adding in a murmur : ‘ The thread Sam 's life hangs by grows thinner and thinner . ’ |
| 9 | He picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival , assembled a band behind him and played loud enough to raise the roofbeams — just like he had done in his high-school days . |
| 10 | He cleared his throat and turned away delicately to allow her to use the hanky . |
| 11 | Dacourt laughed gruffly and turned surreptitiously away to adjust his dress . |
| 12 | He reached Britain this week , but then refused to turn up for several arranged interviews and acted aggressively enough to justify his old nickname , Killer . |
| 13 | I did the best I could with the five keys that would produce a sound and vowed never again to sit in a cupboard . |
| 14 | He reminded those who felt such concern that " since the war , Japan has dedicated itself to a purely defensive posture under our peace constitution and vowed never again to become a military power such as might pose a threat to other countries " . |
| 15 | He picked up his fluted ball pen , crossed out some words , found a clean sheet of paper and began once more to write . |
| 16 | He looked astonished , as well he might , and glanced downwards instinctively to verify this . |
| 17 | The biggest of the children , a girl with a sweet , oval face and a stout stomach that strained the buttons of her green print dress , handed the baby she was carrying to a smaller sister and stepped eagerly forward to stand beside Martha . |
| 18 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 19 | Then he put down the knife and took the sticky thing in his fingers and started very slowly to eat it . |
| 20 | I eventually got tired of the sad lady and the mantenuta and started once again to look for something different . |
| 21 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 22 | She took her drink to the salon , where the remains of the fire still glowed , and after a while she put on the lamps and went slowly across to look at the paintings . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , that 's over , ’ he said , and went straight upstairs to change out of his good suit . |
| 24 | He turned away , and went downstairs again to drink at the bar . |
| 25 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 26 | He also had difficulties with Bishop Ælfstan of Rochester , whose diocese he ravaged in 986 , and Bishop Æthelsige of Sherborne , who incurred the king 's anger , was expelled from his see , and went abroad never to return . |
| 27 | She pinned her conference photo-pass to her lapel , dabbed ‘ Adieu Sagesse ’ behind her ears , and tripped lightly downstairs to breakfast . |
| 28 | He took two wickets in each innings and did well enough to merit further matches . |
| 29 | Having blown up his good engine in practice , Mark was forced to use his second motor in the race , and did very well to get as good a finish as he did . |
| 30 | She saw Defries , and paused long enough to make a curious gesture : a closed fist , and the thumb sticking upwards . |