Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 2 | In these cases , financial security , a reluctance to move to a new employer , and proximity to the statutory pension age , coupled with a desire to do other things with their time or simply to stop working , led them to opt for early retirement . |
| 3 | Over the past ten years local authorities have moved away from the model which led them to act as direct providers of public services . |
| 4 | The whole crew landed safely at Aberdeen at the end of August 1882 , having survived the winter because lack of provisions led them to live on fresh meat , thus avoiding scurvy , and because of Smith 's quiet leadership . |
| 5 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 6 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 7 | Finally , I think the issue which more than any other led me to break with pure separatism , was women 's compassion . |
| 8 | This led me to look at various conventional sorts of murder which could be seen as being idea or perfect murders , with the notion of reversing one of them . |
| 9 | In our 1979 main survey , we asked a series of important questions to discover how people were influenced by the disclosure of either APR or the total credit cost , or both , when we asked them to choose between rival credit terms . |
| 10 | The waiter invited them to choose between coq au vin and navarin of lamb , either of which , in other circumstances , would have been called stew . |
| 11 | She helped herself to trifle with splendid insouciance . |
| 12 | My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed . |
| 13 | She clutched the doll to her heart , and told herself to think of poor dead Effie whose fate had been so much worse than her own , and that should teach her to count her blessings as her dear aunt Nella had always said . |
| 14 | He leaned and peered a little , but not from any weakness of the eyes , rather out of a fixed suspicion that caused him to study with narrow attention all who came near him , and especially strangers . |
| 15 | As a student I supplemented my grant by joining the Officer Training Corps , which not only brought me many good friends but also allowed me to participate in various outdoor activities such as abseiling , pot-holing , parachuting and canoeing . |
| 16 | ‘ The Indians who initally came here in the Sixties had skills and capital which allowed them to move into small businesses , ’ said Dr Owen , research fellow at the Centre for Ethnic Relations at Warwick University . |
| 17 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 18 | Both HWIM and Hearsay-II used an architecture which allowed them to experiment with alternative means of getting started . |
| 19 | Winnie allowed herself to indulge in happy daydreams for some five minutes , and then pulled herself together sharply . |
| 20 | He fought four times for his seat on Southampton council before winning it : a result that encouraged him to move into national politics . |
| 21 | The publisher Grant Richards encouraged her to turn to novel writing , and between 1907 and 1916 she produced six books which are the perfect expression of her personality : frivolous and witty , but with an underlying sense of melancholy . |
| 22 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 23 | James Brown only owed Bance 8s 6d which , if he had paid earlier , he would not have found increased by 3s 6d costs which Judge William Furner ordered him to pay in monthly instalments of 4s on top of his debt . |
| 24 | Messrs. A. R. Brakspear , J. C. Walker and J. F. Cooper ( the fifth of his family in succession to hold the office of Town Clerk ) were appointed as Trustees , their role being a legal necessity which required them to act as designated signatories of the Club in such matters as Land Conveyances , Water Board Agreements , etc . |
| 25 | It equipped you to cope with everyday life . |
| 26 | It appalled him to think of living as Tina did , with one lover after another , apparently not even selectively , or as Jed , long separated from his wife and child , consoled by the society of a bird . |
| 27 | Cerberus is nonetheless fallible , for HERCULES managed to overpower him in his Twelfth Labour with his bare hands while Orpheus lulled him to sleep with soft music . |
| 28 | Similarly , my stay in the guest house in Hyderabad , though somewhat less pleasant , enabled me to keep in close touch with the staff and students of the CIEFL . |
| 29 | Indeed so ‘ brilliant ’ was Mr Wyatt that his erstwhile inamorata once persuaded him to engage in carnal activity on board an aeroplane . |
| 30 | His reputation , style and personal charm enabled him to recover from serious mismatches , such as the ill-advised moving from ITT to RCA of Maurice Valente , who lasted a mere six months in his new job . |