Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only last year , on the instructions of Luther Reynolds , David had brought the boy out of the mines and begun to teach him the way of business ; Matthew often accompanied him on his rounds , and though he made little attempt to befriend David , the boy worked , and learned , and spent so many hours closeted in the ‘ den ’ with the old man , that Beth was obliged to voice her concern . |
| 2 | But Fraser , steady as ever after missing five Tests through injury , found enough lift to have Sidhu sharply caught off bat and pad by John Morris . |
| 3 | Surgeons used long syringes to extract marrow from her pelvic bones , while a motorcycle courier waited outside to rush the refrigerated marrow to the plane that would carry it to a Dutch hospital . |
| 4 | That let off seemed to breathe relief back into the home side , and not for the first time this season the imposing physical presence of youngster Ferguson proved crucial with a deft header which set up Cleland for a fine angled finish from 15 yards for the leveller . |
| 5 | Yo , you 'd only got to tell mother and she 'd soon be after him ! |
| 6 | It seemed especially designed to give weight to his ineptitudes , lending a ridiculous dignity in space to what he had screwed up , like making a free-hanging sculpture of a broken egg-whisk . |
| 7 | He said he 'd always wanted to see St Matthew 's . ’ |
| 8 | Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all . |
| 9 | The opening of the stock exchange was the first step in the privatization programme announced by Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on May 22 ; shortly afterwards , on June 29 , the government detailed further plans to take effect in August , starting with bankruptcy proceedings against about 30 large state entities , the decentralization and splitting up of another 600 companies and the privatization of some 40,000 small service concerns , subsequently adding plans to create private farm holdings . |
| 10 | He 'd never ceased to find fascination within its pages , for it was Maybellome 's intention to make an encyclopaedia listing all the flora , fauna , languages , sciences , ideas , moral perspectives — in short , anything that occurred to her — that had found their way from the Fifth Dominion , the Place of the Succulent Rock , through to the other worlds . |
| 11 | The sharp-shouldered chairs in this joint , which reminded me of Selina 's torso and its erect triangularity , seemed specifically designed to give clients with sore backs a really rough ride . |
| 12 | SERBIA agreed yesterday to try to persuade rebel Serbs in neighbouring Bosnia to let a UN relief convoy through their lines to get supplies to starving Muslims , a UN spokesman said . |
| 13 | The trading opened when the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) auctioned off permits to emit sulphur dioxide . |
| 14 | Pearson , the media group which owns a 17.5pc stake in BSkyB , reversed earlier falls to go 2p ahead to 518p despite the satellite broadcaster reporting its first full-year of operating profits . |
| 15 | Whilst I worked only daring to place sexism at centre stage , it was difficult to give racism its rightful place in our considerations . |
| 16 | Passengers just did not realize how fast trains travelled and contemporary reports list serious injuries and fatalities sustained when people leapt off trains to retrieve hats or umbrellas . |
| 17 | If the Primera does as well as the old Bluebird — 325,000 sold here helping to top 1.8m Nissans sold here in 22 years — they wo n't complain . |
| 18 | He went on to threaten to give details to the media , backed by further contamination of items of food throughout the country , the court was told . |
| 19 | Nijkamp of the Netherlands spent the previous night in a Paris hospital as his wife gave birth to their first child , got back at 5am for some sleep and went on to paddle to last place . |
| 20 | By then , we felt sufficiently established to begin work with women in the poorest districts of San Salvador . |
| 21 | In December the EC announced the suspension of its voluntary ban on new investments in South Africa ( already lifted by the UK in February ) , promising further steps to ease sanctions as and when the government took further steps to end apartheid [ see p. 37910 ] . |
| 22 | I grew up resolving to eschew bargains , to consume conspicuously ; to feed my dogs free-range steak , to change my car when the ashtrays were full . |
| 23 | Then I twisted the film and note together into a paper towel and went out to try to find Bill Baudelaire , reckoning it might be all right to speak to him casually down on ground level since Filmer was n't there to see . |
| 24 | My authority went out to tender to test prices long before the House thought about it . |
| 25 | He did not want to remember Glasgow . |
| 26 | The Prior , ever curious , also tried to intervene but Corbett , taciturn and withdrawn , made it plain he did not want to answer questions . |
| 27 | Although welcoming my friend 's generosity in giving me a pair , I did not want to mate brother and sister if possible especially as these were already young from a brother and sister pairing , so I did not intend to use the young male unless I could find an unrelated mate for him . |
| 28 | She recently turned down £1,500 for a day 's work because she did not want to miss school . |
| 29 | Dexter was gasping for a drink but decided thirst was the better part of subordination : he did not want to annoy Blanche by prolonging the interruption . |
| 30 | In a recent NOP poll , 83 per cent of those questioned did not want to drink milk treated with BST . |