Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These craftsmen then travelled widely to execute commissions . |
| 2 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 3 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 4 | Government representatives , employers and workers now met together to discuss economic policies . |
| 5 | Consequently , the fate of children 's contributions sometimes had less to do with their quality than with their ability to sustain the teacher 's pre-existing intentions for the session as a whole . |
| 6 | It hissed , and one of its fellow creatures also came closer to have a look . |
| 7 | However , Townsend and Wedderburn ( 1965 , Chapter 5 ) make it clear that the low level of many occupational pension payments sometimes served merely to keep their recipients off National Assistance , though still on the margins of poverty . |
| 8 | The two groups then came together to begin the real business of the day — finding a shared appreciation of the situation in which they were to operate . |
| 9 | Most executants then wanted only to express themselves . |
| 10 | And every second month they the occasional keeper the relieving keeper came out local man he came out to make up the two men then went ashore to cover the cover the the reliefs like that . |
| 11 | The average width of reefs found by Daly was about 600 m ( 2 000 ft ) , while wide reefs in the Banda Sea between Celebes and New Guinea , which are between three and four times the average in width , could be explained on the reasonable grounds that the area is so near the equator that temperatures never fell sufficiently to kill the coral . |
| 12 | The Israelites often had only to dig shallow pits to find it . |