Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 12 days of Christmas , women stopped spinning only to start again on Distaff Day . |
| 2 | It seemed to take forever to get up that face , like climbing the rungs of Jacob 's ladder . |
| 3 | You only had to go abroad to see how we were regarded . |
| 4 | ‘ You said your name was Millet … you said that you had come here to find out more about our son . ’ |
| 5 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 6 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 7 | Between that date and 11 February 1987 the plaintiffs succeeded in raising a sum sufficient to meet the liabilities , the maximum amount of which had been quantified in the course of proceedings by Mr. Shamji who had sought unsuccessfully to set aside the appointment of the receivers . |
| 8 | Given their weakened state , the Dutch had done well to hold out for so long . |
| 9 | He reckoned he had done well to get away with two cups of tea and forty minutes of reminiscence before an opening arose to thrust in a question . |
| 10 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
| 11 | It kept us in harbour until the following afternoon when , we decided it had moderated enough to push on to Tobermory . |
| 12 | The entire world shrank to the mere fifteen feet separating her from the man she had thought never to see again . |
| 13 | She later found out that the bosses of the two companies had got together to work out which one of the couple would be the cheapest to sack . |
| 14 | Diniz also had stayed , and had found his way out into the yard , and the broken pillars of the loggia , where he had found somewhere to sit out of the wind . |
| 15 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 16 | Then , fourteen years later , after it had seemed that this strange fish had appeared only to disappear totally , another was caught , not off South Africa but a thousand miles away in Anjouan , one of the tiny Comoro Islands that lie in the Indian Ocean midway between Madagascar and the coast of Tanzania . |
| 17 | It had fought aggressively to diversify away from its mining mainstay into new oil and gas-related markets and had reduced its mining dependency from 80 per cent of turnover two years ago to 30 per cent . |
| 18 | Les Holliday , with some intelligent distribution and accurate touch finding , established a measure of early control for the home side , who took the lead through Wilf George , after David Holmes had worked diligently to set up the chance . |
| 19 | Napoleon III 's ministers had worked hard to bring about the visit — not merely because it was in support of the Emperor 's policy but also , it was hoped , to distract him from his privately announced intention of himself going to the Crimea . |
| 20 | He had learned never to say deprecatingly , as some of his colleagues thought it polished to do , that he was ashamed of his profession because that would sound as though he was , and in a way he was . |
| 21 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |
| 22 | She was a squat , dusty-looking woman on the threshold of sixty , who had been taken on in the library during the war and whom Mervyn had tried unsuccessfully to dislodge ever since he had become librarian . |
| 23 | There was one scene which for months she had tried resolutely to put out of her mind , that last meeting in the staffroom , the circle of implacable faces , brown , black and white , the accusing eyes , the insistent questions . |
| 24 | The two women grinned widely at her as she approached them and the elder of the two spoke after Ruth had tried haltingly to explain why she was here . |
| 25 | One spot he had tried ineffectively to rub away . |
| 26 | Fleury would have liked to have gone , too , but both he and Harry could not go at the same time ; someone had to stay behind to fight off the sepoys . |
| 27 | Hidden in his catalogue of explicit delights was the one implicit one he had carefully avoided — the one alternative she had vowed never to consider again . |
| 28 | But on-loan keeper Dave Beasant had to move fast to keep out a cross-come-shot from Hammers stalwart Alvin Martin . |
| 29 | Nigel never looked at any building before examining the head , and I had learnt never to become too enthused about interiors until this had been done . |
| 30 | None of the six — Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas ; Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa ; Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska ; former Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts ; former Governor Gerry Brown of California , and Governor Douglas Wilder of Virginia — were nationally recognised figures , and all had laboured unsuccessfully to break away from the pack and establish a clear lead in the polls . |