Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government finally agreed to fresh negotiations and promised not to proceed with legislation on banning strikes for two years . |
| 2 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 3 | Dot fingered her victory badge and tried not to listen in case it seemed like prying . |
| 4 | Hard tried not to giggle with triumph , Elizabeth leaned tremulously on Bridhe 's shoulder , and let the old lady comfort her . |
| 5 | She tried not to think about Finn because then she felt weak and hopeless . |
| 6 | Maggie had been amazed at her own fury , rocked by the power of Fenna within her , breaking through the cool disdain she tried always to preserve in front of this loathsome woman . |
| 7 | In the morning Nigel tried faintly to argue about money . |
| 8 | But , miraculously , everything seemed suddenly to fit into place and we managed to put all the horror behind us and start again . |
| 9 | Stephen came in to change for dinner , thoughtful and brooding . |
| 10 | pregnant women are , therefore , advised not to participate in exercise that involves Valsalva 's manoeuvre by both the ACOG and the British College of Obstetricians . |
| 11 | The following year , in May , I sneaked off to audition for Tiller without my mother 's knowledge . |
| 12 | He came back to England and seemed about to succumb to pneumonia but , ten days after his return , he went on another visit to Paris , on this occasion to receive an honorary degree from the University there . |
| 13 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |
| 14 | The woman seemed to change in front of Kim 's eyes , seemed almost to grow in size . |
| 15 | The 57-year-old was first taken ill in 1988 after coaching England at the European Championship finals , but recovered quickly to return to coaching . |
| 16 | In the same year , it became harder to re-qualify for unemployment benefit once entitlement had been exhausted . |
| 17 | The great pundit of economics , John Stuart Mill ( 1806–73 ) ( he happened personally to sympathise with labour ) , modified his position on the question in 1869 , after which the ‘ wage-fund ’ theory no longer enjoyed canonical authority . |
| 18 | More than eight out of 10 consumers , out of a sample of about 1,500 , said their consumption of meat and fish was unaffected by health considerations and 60% did not care about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about calories , while more than half claimed not to worry about salt , sugar or caffeine . |
| 19 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 20 | The sea lagoon turned out to vary in depth from a few inches to a couple of feet . |
| 21 | Through the little side gate , across the road , and we turned left to walk into Orange . |
| 22 | He turned round to gaze at Cord Dillon , Deputy Director of the CIA . |
| 23 | Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour . |
| 24 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 25 | ( So much so that when , at the 1989 party conference , a delegate got up to speak in defence of Sunday as a day of worship , he was met with a chorus of boos from shopkeepers on the floor . ) |
| 26 | There was room for both science and religion since the Bible taught how to go to heaven , not how the heavens go . |
| 27 | Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well . |
| 28 | This Friday Geraldine settled down to wait for Newsnight . |
| 29 | Then we all settled down to wait for Madam . |
| 30 | On the fifth we settled down to wait on deck . |