Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they felt they could not follow the diet or did n't want to be committed I asked them to please return all the papers , and about seventy of them did just that . |
| 2 | He pretended he did n't know me or did n't want to . |
| 3 | It took the head of household — the husband , usually — to be the tax payer and assumed that wives , for example , were somehow uninterested in the tax bill or did not contribute to it . |
| 4 | Somehow I felt I could not , or did not want to , explain about Miss Havisham and her strange house . |
| 5 | It seemed as if Walterkin 's request for more information had become a subliminal trigger which Lucien could not , or did not want to , ignore . |
| 6 | Under ordinary circumstances , Nurse Goodman would probably not have given permission but ‘ the Major ’ , as he had become known , was such a mystery that she was glad to feel that at least somebody knew of his fate and cared enough to come to the hospital to see how he was getting on . |
| 7 | He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver . |
| 8 | When the dance ended , he released her without a word and moved away to talk to his mother and sister , who had been crying passionately in the church as they watched Damian become Rachel 's husband . |
| 9 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 10 | He 's been stopped and told not to write to us . |
| 11 | Paisley accused Craig of proposing UDI and seemed most committed to the complete integration of Ulster with the mainland if the old majority-rule Stormont could not be reintroduced . |
| 12 | He came back to England and seemed about to succumb to pneumonia but , ten days after his return , he went on another visit to Paris , on this occasion to receive an honorary degree from the University there . |
| 13 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |
| 14 | Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton 's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign . |
| 15 | Melissa was about to get back into her car when Bonard called her name and came over to speak to her . |
| 16 | THE ROCKINGBIRDS have scheduled a pair of Irish dates and added further shows to their current British tour , which now includes . |
| 17 | Just as well I 'm not actually present , or little Naomi might find herself picked up , spun three times round the cafe ceiling , and hauled off screaming to some horrendous netherworld . |
| 18 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 19 | After another step or two the man stopped and turned round to speak to the parson . |
| 20 | The Petroleum sub-sector began the decade in the doldrums , having lost much of its traffic due to reduced demand and surrendered further flows to long-distance pipelines . |
| 21 | Module images are produced in pages as in a computer listing , but are ordered and displayed differently according to the media type chosen , and the settings in the configuration file , as described later . |
| 22 | Ironically enough , on recovery her parents were gentler with her and began gradually to compromise to a certain extent , and now she is at a college of further education . |
| 23 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 24 | The hungry soulless being who served Crom Croich and walked abroad crying to be let in , and who carried on his back a dripping sack … |
| 25 | The King assured Baldwin that he never drank before seven in the evening and settled down to listen to the lecture that he knew was coming . |
| 26 | He found a seat and settled down to listen to the opening speaker in the first of the day 's debates . |
| 27 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 28 | I took a fresh notebook from the glove compartment and started back to talk to them . |
| 29 | That evening , knowing that David was dining out , Anthony came home in time to have dinner with Comfort and looked in to talk to Julia before changing out of his hospital clothes . |
| 30 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |