Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb past] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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1 | He had a left hemiplegia , and was flaccid at first , although the flaccidity soon started changing to spasticity . |
2 | Liverpool city council recently gave backing to the scheme , and on January 3 the company will present its plans to a special meeting of Wirral council . |
3 | The Devil always started whispering to him when he was especially bored . |
4 | It was planned to be an important branch , conveying iron ore from the strata at Apley and Donington , but this traffic never materialised owing to the vast amount of iron ore deposits found at Santon , near Scunthorpe . |
5 | The project never materialised owing to a federal moratorium on housing funds , but the two strands of building preservation and community involvement came together in 1979 with the incorporation of the MCC . |
6 | I went down and the guy there started talking to me and we talked for five hours about life , about the reality of life , the reality of desires and goals and all that good stuff . |