Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since delivery only required one of us , I 'd undertaken to go down to Fraxilly while Mala stayed with the ship . |
| 2 | She 'd decided to go along with the FBI for a laugh , and because it might possibly help British Intelligence . |
| 3 | She had the cheek to say he ought to cancel meetings only because of ill-health or for work opportunities , not because he 'd decided to go out with someone else . |
| 4 | And it more or less made it that we 'd got to go back for the ten and thruppence . |
| 5 | Well came from Bar which is er a matter of six miles , six to eight miles out side Girran and you 'd got to come in by foot or by trap . |
| 6 | And er I was informed like that er I I had d stop till six o'clock at night , that night , and I was informed that er I 'd got to come back at night and bring me men . |
| 7 | ‘ So would you have if you 'd had to put up with half of what I 've been through in the past ! |
| 8 | I had n't got the change to ring you from the tube , and I 'd had to rush out of the house to get there because I woke up late . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd had to break off for lack of an English verb that he remembered as soon as Bacci pronounced it . |
| 10 | He 'd had to walk on for quite a bit after that and it was quite late in the day when it occurred to him that the villagers had probably been just having a joke with him and that they would no doubt be feeling anxious by then and starting to worry . |
| 11 | One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks . |
| 12 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 13 | If she 'd wanted to go off with someone else , she would just have said so . |
| 14 | I 'd hoped to come on to Prague after that . |
| 15 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 16 | Mostly she quizzed me about the burglars and I said they 'd tried to get in through the bathroom window and one of them had put a foot through it , probably coming from the roof next door , and I generally made out that there was a whole gang of footpads up there lying in wait for Santa Claus . |
| 17 | If I 'd tried to walk out along the trail , I would have met Perkin face to face . |
| 18 | I 'd planned to go back to Australia when I 'd made enough . |
| 19 | He 'd planned to storm up to General Kopyion and demand to be told what the Justice Police were doing to prevent further bloodshed . |
| 20 | By mutual consent they 'd begun to walk back towards the centre of the city , in the direction of Republic Square . |
| 21 | The Corporal stopped , ordering the boy who 'd fired to go back to the spot and engage the malais as they came down the road . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd managed to hang on to it . |
| 23 | She 'd read Shakespeare , Pete had n't ; not unless you counted Julius Caesar at school , which he 'd managed to get through with a lot of patience and a set of Coles ' Notes . |
| 24 | He 'd managed to walk out of a locked ward at the Fairmile psychiatric hospital , and it 's thought he threw himself under an express train . |
| 25 | Apparently I 'd chosen to pee up against a police station , so they took me inside , and told me off , and of course I apologized . |
| 26 | Hastings began to try to get back to its pre-war holiday resort living . |
| 27 | As the time for the funeral approached , so the RUC began to arrive to take over on point duty from the UDR , who then merged into the background but nevertheless maintained a discreet but ever-watchful presence . |
| 28 | Then , like a flock of frightened sheep , everyone who survived began to run back towards the village . |
| 29 | Blake needed to run to keep up with the indignant Doctor . |
| 30 | After that many Republican law-makers felt compelled to go along with it — and it became harder for critics to attack the reforms as ‘ socialised medicine ’ . |