Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [to-vb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 2 | In January 1977 , amid rumours of a personality clash with Crawford , Frances Cuka left the production , exercising a clause in her contract that allowed her to go after four months . |
| 3 | Bangor finally shook themselves to run in three tries , helped enormously by some comical Collegians defending . |
| 4 | Down below , in the third class , James Flanagan , a Primitive Methodist minister who began his working life at seven and taught himself to read at twenty-one , preached and ‘ frequently pleaded with the God of earth and sea ’ for a safe journey . |
| 5 | At the civilization 's zenith , the Minoan towns gathered together craft workers with widely varying skills and enabled them to learn from one another . |
| 6 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 7 | He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life ; instantly , in less than the time it took her to walk from one side of the room to the other , he knew he loved her . |
| 8 | What took place around the time of the lunar eclipse on August 6th must have made you wonder what possessed you to enter into one particular agreement . |
| 9 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 10 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 11 | Ill health forced him to retire in 1915 . |
| 12 | Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’ |
| 13 | St Mawgan Radar asked us to climb to 2500 feet through the MATZ . |
| 14 | The strong-running midfielder burst through the middle on to Ray Houghton 's superb ball , rounded goalkeeper Bryan Gunn and then steadied himself to shoot from six yards . |
| 15 | It also instructed him to conclude within one month interim agreements with each of the republics to ensure " stabilization of the socio-economic situation " , and instructed Supreme Soviet Chairman Anatoly Lukyanov to draft temporary agreements with the republican legislatures on overcoming the " war of laws " , pending signature of the new Union Treaty . |
| 16 | Branson held her to contract for five more months , preventing her from working anywhere else , until he decided it was unreasonable to hold her any longer , and she was at last able to find work elsewhere in the record industry . |