Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she found she was n't proof against his sudden closeness , nor his smiling charm as his eyes tried yet again to seek out the curves of her body hidden so discreetly from his probing by her chosen armour . |
| 2 | Despite this the two parties began almost immediately to undertake joint campaigns . |
| 3 | It is now clear that the King had the gravest doubts about the general suitability of his heir for the Throne , and that these doubts went far enough to turn his mind towards the desirability of getting his second son to succeed instead . |
| 4 | Despite several meetings in July , negotiators failed once again to meet their deadline for agreement on a common European Communities ( EC ) -European Free Trade Area ( EFTA ) European Economic Area ( EEA ) , scheduled to become operative in January 1993 . |
| 5 | For 50 years after the turn of the century , shipbuilders and shipping companies worked hard both to make ships faster and to lower their fuel consumption . |
| 6 | Ben Hanbury 's three-year-old completely missed the break in that 16-runner event and in the circumstances did extremely well to finish sixth , 12½ lengths behind Musicale . |
| 7 | ON the eve of the most significant European Community summit of recent years , the French and West German governments moved quickly yesterday to avert a damaging split over plans to move to full European economic and monetary union . |
| 8 | Fifty four years later the boys and their families came together again to honour their benefactors in the garden at the Manor . |
| 9 | Unskilled and impoverished , they found limited employment opportunities , were ill-paid and insecure , and urban health and housing conditions deteriorated sharply enough to arouse unease among the police . |
| 10 | Instead his minders offered just enough to keep the hacks occupied , mainly in transcribing undecipherable tape recordings snatched on carefully marshalled visits , whose symbolism was either crassly self-evident or completely obscure . |
| 11 | The Olympians had slightly further to swim , and while the juniors were allowed to crawl Moorhouse was made to swim the breast stroke at which he won gold at Seoul 5 years ago . |
| 12 | The idea of a department of state concerned solely with foreign affairs had clearly still to fight for acceptance . ) |
| 13 | The hat becomes limp and shapeless , and most girls tried quite desperately to avoid this mishap . |
| 14 | This was Eilean na Roin , the Island of the Seals , and the grey seals came ashore here to breed and to bask . |
| 15 | Her body looked diminished , almost shrivelled , in the huge chair , and the gnarled hands on the arms began very gently to shake . |
| 16 | The axis of the great shift in the world ran between Bonn and Moscow , and if Britain was nominally closer to it all than the United States , its political leaders had even less to say . |
| 17 | And most clubs did very well to get three or four . |
| 18 | Her hands trembled too badly to cook and she sweated as if in the tropics . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was caused by the complicated influences of the valley where the men seemed so often to remain unmarried , sometimes perhaps because , as Beuno held , their mothers said there was no one good enough for them , sometimes because there simply was n't anyone . |
| 20 | The tourists came here principally to win the Test series and they proved to be worthy winners . |
| 21 | ‘ I just hope the police reacted quickly enough to catch them . |
| 22 | Purchasers responded only weakly to market signals such as competitive prices ( 22 per cent ) or the fact that a provider had " a well developed quality assurance programme " ( 12 per cent ) . |
| 23 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 24 | It was left to Erin Pizzey to reveal that many , if not most , physically abused women had nowhere else to go . |
| 25 | Bernice 's instincts remained sharp enough to warn her that here was somebody dangerous in a very unsubtle way . |