Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was put clean through by Ray Houghton in the 68th minute , rounded goalkeeper Bryan Gunn but although he steadied himself to convert from only six yards , he somehow failed to even hit the target . |
| 2 | He no longer had to consciously listen out for the psychic interference that pervaded the island . |
| 3 | Angela just said to just alter it on the P forty five , but |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ she muttered as she deliberately refused to even consider the implications of his statement , of that strong body being in a wheelchair , diminished , the arrogance dimmed . |
| 5 | There were sharp cuts in government expenditure which , although they eased the deficit in the short term , also led to further slowing down of the economy as a whole . |
| 6 | The AGM also decided to radically alter the structure of the BHRCA . |
| 7 | There were a lot a lot involved there er and some of you actually found that that there was quite a lot that you really had to almost worry about and think about and and er yesterday for the first time of doing it with this this new method it does take quite a bit of thinking about and as we agreed practice is is what 's what 's important .. |
| 8 | Infuriatingly he just laughed quietly and she flatly refused to even glance at him again . |
| 9 | Adults learning to use computers are frequently taught very basic principles ( like how to switch on the machine and " boot " a disc ) and then encouraged to simply play with it for a while . |
| 10 | Before 1985 , there were few specialist primary advisers ; the LEA then started to rapidly expand the service , the exercise coinciding with restructuring of the administration as a whole . |
| 11 | Once J. called her Eggy to her face , and then had to quickly explain that this was a term of admiration , not derision . |
| 12 | Her worries and cares oddly seemed to just desert her . |
| 13 | However , instead of er releasing and dealing with his rage , Wilson er instead chose to strongly identify with his father , erm argued er Wilson never grew beyond his father identification , because the situation whereby er Wilson was full of , of the conviction that his er mission in life was somehow divided . |
| 14 | She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . |
| 15 | Anyway , th the guy we had tonight reckoned that er he never quite got to grips with er Bernstein and he 's f and he , he apologized for being stuck in restrictive which er he could n't even remember that it was called restrictive until somebody told him but he said ah yes that 's it , but yes I never managed to he said I never managed to really get very far with that . |
| 16 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 17 | Williams was one of those players who never learned to properly channel his aggression , never believed anybody knew better than him and always asked ‘ Why me ? ’ of critics rather than himself . |