Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bitterly disappointed , Harrison abandoned medical reform , but his ideas lived on to provide a solid basis for future important developments , which culminated in the Medical Act of 1858 . |
| 2 | Marcus , limply , but for a perfectly decent period , took it as it was offered , and then moved on to lay a cold cheek against his mother 's . |
| 3 | The crowd was eventually scattered but , later that evening , the police tried forcibly to remove a political banner at the city centre 's War Memorial . |
| 4 | He knelt down to place a small pile of change in her hands . |
| 5 | Faye pulled the flannelette blanket aside a little , already tender and protective of her child , and Belinda bent down to take a closer look . |
| 6 | She bent down to lift a domed glass lid lying on a heap of earth . |
| 7 | Not until the machines moved in to throw a great concrete runway across the fields , and buildings grew like mushrooms overnight and were camouflaged brown and black and green , and the bombers roared in , and Rob came … |
| 8 | Two decades ago , Strahler tried valiantly to infuse a genetic approach into the subject but was greeted with meagre response … |
| 9 | Robyn tried not to care , tried not to feel a million times worse just from seeing the clearly disdainful expression , but it was impossible . |
| 10 | But I tried always to have a quiet time with God before I started my revision that morning . |
| 11 | Both the Christian Democrats and the Socialists , long the leading partnership of Italian government , tried yesterday to put a brave face on their poor showing . |
| 12 | Separatists tried unsuccessfully to disrupt a military parade in Lithuania . |
| 13 | But Colin bounced back to score a good victory in the under-16 final against Adam Bond ( Skelmersdale Park ) . |
| 14 | Herbert Hobden ( Holzinger ) tried hard to keep a stiff upper lip as he was introduced , with his ten-year-old sister , to his new home : |
| 15 | It was not easy to avoid domestic politics but we tried hard to achieve a delicate balance . |
| 16 | For most cuts , the work is steadied against the foot plate which can be angled to bring it into contact with the workpiece ; because the teeth of the sawblade tend to become worn close to the foot plate , the plate can be unclamped and moved forwards to bring a fresh section of the blade into use . |
| 17 | Whitlock thought of the Italian restaurant and moved closer to get a better look . |
| 18 | On Sept. 4 Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland replaced six ministers and reorganized several ministries in a Cabinet reshuffle designed primarily to provide a stronger focus on tackling the problem of unemployment . |
| 19 | German companies rallied round to form a holding company just to buy Daimler shares . |
| 20 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 21 | If it was Mrs Foster 's intention to express disapproval of the Major 's predilection for gossip , the animation in her tone and the wild fluttering of her colourless eyelashes seemed rather to show an unhealthy interest in what he had to say and an eagerness to discuss it . |
| 22 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 23 | Children 's Bowling Parties : Birthday cakes , balloons , badges and bowling all added together to make a memorable occasion . |
| 24 | At the far end was a place where the backs of four high buildings came together to form a small courtyard . |
| 25 | Paraskevi Patoulidou came through to grab a first ever athletics medal for a Greek girl . |
| 26 | Sometimes Soutine , who was living in the village , came over to enjoy a good chicken dinner , and after eating their fill the two artists reproached their host for living in such luxury . |
| 27 | Recently at an important business function several of the managers from the company for whom she works came over to take a closer look . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , she 's been here since the beginning of the year — she came over to start a new life after she 'd had problems back home . |
| 29 | About ten days after the Club dance , my mother and father and I , and Anne and her parents drove up to spend a few days in the Rest House at Kota Belud , a beauty spot on the upper slopes of Kinabalu . |
| 30 | He came back to do a smashing job . ’ |