Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed to try to express any feelings of animosity at an early stage , rather than harbouring them until they exploded . |
| 2 | Mr Badran promised to continue to subsidise basic foods and not to raise taxes , though he said the government would reform taxation and spread the tax burden more evenly . |
| 3 | In the end he stopped bothering to make any pretence of cuddles , it became fucking pure and simple . |
| 4 | Celia perished trying to help some natives dying of pestilence . |
| 5 | A potential failure of contraception had been recognised by 171 patients : 93 reported a split or leaking condom ; 13 reported a condom coming off during intercourse ; 32 admitted inconsistent use of condoms ; 32 reported forgetting to take contraceptive pills or taking antibiotics concurrently with the pill ; and one reported a late injection of medroxyprogesterone acetate . |
| 6 | The move seemed intended to protect domestic supply — there had been a 25 per cent fall in production in the first half of 1991 [ see p. 38492 ] . |
| 7 | The measures proposed in the first SCSE resolution seemed designed to gain popular support , and , according to a report in Le Monde of Aug. 22 , food unavailable for months suddenly appeared in Moscow 's shops during the coup . |
| 8 | His throat was dry and he 'd forgotten to buy any candy . |
| 9 | The truth is I had nothing at all in the bottle — it was empty because I 'd forgotten to get new supplies . |
| 10 | Slorne stared , her feathers a silvery grey in the night , and seemed to try to find some strength which would let her speak . |
| 11 | He explicitly rejected attempting to solve socialist problems by adopting capitalist methods , but did suggest that his government was interested in improving relations with capitalist countries . |
| 12 | And he said that we 'd got to have some softening , some change , some relaxation after the intensity of the march to the hut . |
| 13 | And you 'd got to pay five shillings . |
| 14 | This album was actually recorded back in 1990 , just after we 'd played with Lloyd Cole , so we 'd got to know each other pretty well . |
| 15 | It is usually found ( from pilot studies ) that ‘ personalization ’ of the letter of introduction is of no benefit , nor is use of a printed letterhead ; neither the colour of paper nor the day ( of the week ) received seem to make any difference . |
| 16 | But Mr laird said he 'd have stopped if he 'd had to use excessive force . |
| 17 | In the morning , she 'd ask Marie-Christine to take him a note , saying that she 'd had to make other plans . |
| 18 | I did n't know why I 'd agreed to attend this festival . |
| 19 | In the pre-Marcus days she 'd seemed to have greater control over every aspect of her nervous system than she did now . |
| 20 | They 'd gone to see another hill , which had been a Roman fort , covered in ferns now . |
| 21 | And then the timekeeper could mark down that they were present , they 'd gone to work that day you see ? |
| 22 | There was clearly no point in arguing with the man any longer , she consoled herself , wearily removing her short-sleeved ivory silk blouse and the skirt of the pin-striped navy suit in which she 'd gone to work that morning . |
| 23 | He 'd gone to get those tickets . |
| 24 | If I 'd wanted to do red nipples there was n't a decent whole stick of red left . |
| 25 | She 'd tried to get another position in hotel work , but nothing suitable been available . |
| 26 | Once or twice he 'd — well he 'd tried to make some sort of advances to her . |
| 27 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 28 | He slipped one hand forward to restrain hers even before she 'd started to lift panicked fingers to her scalp . |
| 29 | He 'd driven her directly to her hotel so she could change her clothes and she 'd elected to wear lightweight cream cotton jeans topped by a matching sleeveless cotton stretch top , taking the precaution of carrying a jacket when Rune warned her that the breeze from the Baltic could be stiff despite the increasing warmth of the day . |
| 30 | In effect , I 'd lost a day and I wondered if there had been something I 'd planned to do that Monday , like work , for instance . |