Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paragraph 610 of the Bar code provides , first : ’ Counsel must not make statements or ask questions which are merely scandalous or intended or calculated only to vilify insult or annoy either a witness or some other person ; counsel must if possible avoid the naming in open Court of third parties whose characters would thereby be impugned ; counsel must not suggest that a witness or other person is guilty of crime , fraud or misconduct or attribute to another person the crime or conduct of which his lay client is accused ’ |
| 2 | Megaliths were smashed to make gate-posts or road-stone , blown up or pushed aside to clear space for the plough . |
| 3 | Once myth was destroyed , the metaphysical drive survived at best in attenuated form in the Socratic search for knowledge ; and at worst in a religious syncretism that led only to complete triviality or exotic superstition . |
| 4 | ‘ I think it is fair to say ’ , mused Abrams , that everyone involved in the RIG ( the Restricted Inter-agency Group that met regularly to discuss policy in Latin America ) knew that Ollie was somehow connected with this but did n't know why … |
| 5 | The diversity of organizations and associations that joined together to form Gold EIA shows how widespread concern had become ( see table 3.2 ) . |
| 6 | Where his friend Charles Williams had achieved only phantasmal fictions that struggled implausibly to marry realism and the supernatural , Lewis turned that improbable formula into stories that compel attention . |
| 7 | Cells were plated out at a maximum initial density of 510 cells per dish and incubated overnight to allow separation of adherent cells ( fibroblasts and macrophages ) from inflammatory cells . |
| 8 | Entrenched positions may be established easily between the two with the result that claims are prepared and argued merely to prevent loss of face when in reality the matter could and should have been settled by discussion on site when the problems arose . |
| 9 | Son of a head of ideology on the Communist party 's Central Committee , Legasov became a chemist and rose rapidly to become deputy head of the Kurchatov Institute of nuclear science — and a friend of the powerful . |
| 10 | Japan 's post-1868 rulers utilized this nationalistic focus and claimed throughout to exercise power in the name of the emperor . |
| 11 | They set off , passed under St John 's Gate and turned right to join traffic heading northwards . |
| 12 | Three times in all her grandfather prostrated himself on the altar mat , then he rose slowly and stepped aside to make way for his son . |
| 13 | Above the river , the seagulls kept on the wing as long as they could , hoping the turbulence would bring them a good find , then , defeated and battered , they heeled and screamed away to find refuge . |
| 14 | She turned away , frustrated , and went downstairs to make lunch . |
| 15 | There was a moment 's hesitation before Dieter said , ‘ Okay , ’ and went indoors to fetch pen and paper . |
| 16 | This body of thought , sometimes called Neo-Hegelism , which had been introduced into Britain by Benjamin Jowett , Green 's tutor at Balliol , rejected the dominant philosophical view , derived from the Enlightenment , which was ‘ empiricist , individualistic , utilitarian ’ , and chose instead to see reality as ‘ an organic interconnected whole , no part of which was independent of the rest ’ . |
| 17 | I elbowed my way through the nosey parkers gossiping in the yard and ran home to tell Dad my good news . |
| 18 | He told Ram to kill her as well and hurried away to take refuge in the banqueting hall and try to erase from his mind the scene he had just witnessed . |
| 19 | First Man looked down and saw that he was naked , and hurried away to find fig leaves to cover himself … |
| 20 | She slid into sleep as dawn approached but rose early to make tea . |
| 21 | He had obeyed the Father in all things and would not only have to die but had also to become sin for the sake of the captives . |
| 22 | Where a cash underwritten alternative has been offered , but closed early to save underwriting costs , the offeror will , in order to take advantage of the compulsory sale procedure , need to find the cash itself in order to pay minority shareholders ( see paras 13.4.3 and 13.3.5 below ) . |