Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well a , yes , of course were clear out the file drawer , but then with got to find somewhere else to put the blessed stuff have n't we ? |
| 2 | He even tried to reload fast enough to have another crack at it , but it thumped into the wet heather near the river before he could get the shell into the gun . |
| 3 | He said he 'd flown over urgently to see me and asked me to come to the Cheshire Cheese , that pub in Fleet Street , at ten o'clock that night . |
| 4 | I think first part to it , but then er it seemed to go downhill so to speak . |
| 5 | Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime ! |
| 6 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 7 | You see we divide our time between London and Cornwall and I 'd stayed up late to watch the film with only one light burning . |
| 8 | In the cause of historical justice , it should be noticed how he seemed always to feel obliged to express caution about too readily assigning to the cosmical redshift all the attributes of an ordinary velocity shift ; at the same time he seemed to wish not positively to offer any alternative treatment . |
| 9 | Well , she 'd simply have to find the strength within herself to resist that power , she decided grimly , rising to her feet and reaching for the long black dress she 'd laid out earlier to change into . |
| 10 | I wish he 'd lived long enough to meet you . ’ |
| 11 | In the five minutes spent walking fast enough to shake them off , I 'm in the crowds in the main square , Djemaa el Fna . |
| 12 | Well I felt very honoured that er that people should recognise er the fact that you know you did the job and they enjoyed coming down here to travel from Charlbury . |
| 13 | It became obvious that the Parents ' Action Committee needed to find somewhere else to carry out its own work . |
| 14 | I had no proof of it but I was much too shy to eat every day in the company of soldiers anyway , so I decided to find somewhere else to eat . |
| 15 | Started ringing up again to see if sort it out . |
| 16 | There were quite a lot of drugs around at the time and somehow or other , I did n't quite know how , I managed to scrape enough together to feed my children and keep my flat going and just keep my life ticking over . |
| 17 | By the time I reappeared , Lisabeth had cheered up enough to smile weakly , having adopted the invalid-on-the-sickbed routine . |
| 18 | Angie Bowie : ‘ The Christmas before recording ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , I had flown back home to see my parents . |
| 19 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 20 | Stephanie had broken off breathlessly to announce this in English to Anneliese , adding with a determined glitter of hostility in her eyes , ‘ What time does your flight go tomorrow , Signorina Hastings ? ’ |
| 21 | She 'd packed her bags knowing that whatever else happened she had to go back home to find out from her mother just who her father was . |
| 22 | It had fallen too slowly to break but the wine had flowed out and made a dark stain like blood on the white candlewick . |
| 23 | This allows the lungs to remain inflated after a breath is taken , without it the lung does not expand adequately and the baby had to work much harder to breathe — rather like blowing up a new balloon as opposed to one with some air already in it . |
| 24 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to come back here to return to the basic me-ness . |
| 26 | She had looked round once to see if her guests were all in situ and observed that almost all the chairs were occupied . |
| 27 | He had played in Spain but after a car accident had come back here to recuperate . |
| 28 | Tyson 's past had come back eerily to haunt him — this time not in street violence but in the way Desiree Washington , a competitor in the Miss America Pageant accused him of the crimes that were to see the world heavyweight champion 's status reduced to that of a common criminal . |
| 29 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 30 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |