Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This situation only started to change in the late 19th century as more excavators tried to understand what they were finding . |
| 2 | Gazzer only had to stand in the middle of the towpath and wait as the man approached him . |
| 3 | They had missed the track the night before so had to sleep in the bush with but one blanket each . |
| 4 | In the first place , the working classes naturally wanted to participate in the economic benefits they were helping to produce in the industrial and service sectors . |
| 5 | In return , Flemish weavers eventually came to settle in the neighbourhood and teach local workers their ‘ mysteries ’ . |
| 6 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 7 | just happened to mention in the night says I 'd like a white telly you know , go a bit more with , with the decor |
| 8 | Bloody-mindedness on all sides soon began to show in the economic performance of the region . |
| 9 | Hire purchase indeed soon began to figure in the minds of bureau workers as the Wicked Fairy , as well as the Fairy Godmother , in the house . |
| 10 | She no longer needed to jump in the swimming pool to raise £5 , though if it had been necessary she would probable have done it : " You believe in God but you also use every means possible to raise funds . |
| 11 | Sylvie spoke in French , as she normally continued to do in the house , and glared at her daughter . |
| 12 | Periodically Moreau translated for the benefit of his countrymen , who thereupon continued to behave in the manner of stage Frenchmen , with much shrugging and stifled Gallic oaths . |
| 13 | Even during the period of the " phoney war " he had fantasies of the house being bombed , and in June 1940 he asked Herbert Read to store in the country some of his books and clothes in order to prevent them from being destroyed in an air-raid.When on 7 September the " blitz " against London did begin , he decided that he no longer wished to stay in the capital . |
| 14 | Since August last year I have found myself spending a fortune as I desperately wanted to compete in the ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ 1992 . |
| 15 | Pete says he just wanted to get in the air so he read about the sport in magazines and then got in touch with the association … he says the sport is easy if you know what you are doing but you can pay dearly for your mistakes |
| 16 | There were , however , some immediate gains ; one of these was the decline of belief in hell , which gradually ceased to resound in the sermons of Ministers of God other than Calvinists . |
| 17 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 18 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 19 | When the grant ceased Zbo , as he was called , tried to earn a living by selling books and prints along the quayside , and gradually began to deal in the paintings of the modern and as yet unrecognized artists . |
| 20 | TWO of the Rugby League 's three relegated clubs Chorley Borough and Nottingham City yesterday decided to play in the new National Conference League next season . |
| 21 | Even though the ball was , to scale , probably seven foot high it still managed to go in the back of the net . |
| 22 | The most difficult thing I ever had to do in the cinema was to kiss Christopher Reeve . |
| 23 | Two thirds of these , however , have a range of less than 160 km ; so the weapons could drop on the alliance 's own territory if it ever had to retreat in the face of an attack by the Warsaw Pact . |
| 24 | And when I er went to go on me own er I still wanted to keep in the union and I went down the Locksmiths ' union , which was in the market place , and they said they er we could n't , we could n't have you in the union if you go on your own erm there 's another denomination or something , was something that you 'd have to join or something like that and be on your own . |
| 25 | He also threatened to call in the receiver to Mr Bond 's master corporation and to his private family company , Dallhold Investments — the firm which sits at the top of the whole debt-laden business structure . |
| 26 | Revivalism also began to appear in the parallel growth of some of the dissenting churches and , most extremely , in the emergence of extraordinary movements of popular messianism and millenarianism . |
| 27 | She also learned to assist in the preparation of foods she believed herself , in 1954 , to dislike : aïoli , estouffade de boeuf , kid stewed with wine , tomatoes and garlic , potage de legumes hand-wound through a Mouli , dressed salads made with unknown leaves and fronds , crimson , cream-white , spinach-dark , curly pale green . |
| 28 | The sixty-five year old , who also learned to box in the forces , was in his pyjamas — but the muggers still believed he had money to steal |
| 29 | Slaley Hall , in Northumberland , also had to call in the receivers , development of a new complex at Loch Lomond has also halted while East Sussex National has had its problems . |
| 30 | Not content with just the interminable Benson and Hedges World Series Cup , the players also had to fit in the Benson and Hedges Challenge between the fourth and fifth Tests , a jamboree dreamed up to latch on to the sporting frenzy which the TV and marketing people had decreed would seize the nation when the America 's Cup yacht races were staged off Fremantle . |