Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 2 | I got to sit down after that , and I find a wooden crate . |
| 3 | Davis agreed to go up to 200 guineas , and in the event secured the unseen yearling for a mere 160 guineas . |
| 4 | If the pH failed to come up to 5 after 20 minutes ( 1200 seconds ) , the acid clearance time was regarded to be 1200 seconds . |
| 5 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 6 | As Clinton went from strength to strength , Bush failed to struggle out of that image of being weak . |
| 7 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 8 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 9 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 10 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 11 | The goal came as City tried to struggle through with 10 men while Rick Holden was having four stitches in a mouth wound after colliding with team-mate Terry Phelan . |
| 12 | Objective probability applies to those events which have been tested previously and found to come up with consistent results . |
| 13 | ‘ Aye , except he pointed out that if she was new to the job and she tried to muzzle in around that quarter , the others would soon make short shrift of her . |
| 14 | Yet the ‘ Song of Eärendil ’ does of course tell a story as well : how Eärendil tried to sail out of this world to a kind of Paradise , how he succeeded in the end by virtue of the ‘ Silmaril ’ , how this in turn led to his becoming a star , or rather the helmsman of a celestial boat in which the burning Silmaril appears to Middle-earth as a star . |
| 15 | F—ing top quality entertainment , eh kids ) took direct hits to the head and upper body which they tried to laugh off with some misplaced jokes . |
| 16 | She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed . |
| 17 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 18 | Finally she tried to get down to some more serious work , first skimming through a book about castles she had brought with her , then sketching ruined towers , broken archways and towering keeps . |
| 19 | Raiders tried to break in to this cottage in the early hours , but they were spotted by vigilant neighbours when security lights came on . |
| 20 | Raiders tried to break in to this cottage in the early hours , but they were spotted by vigilant neighbours when security lights came on . |
| 21 | Two guys tried to break in at three in the morning , and they woke the neighbours . ’ |
| 22 | Everton , still without their regular centre-backs Ratcliffe and Watson because of injury , again tried to make up for this by playing Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 23 | He was speaking from a mind full of ideas and images , which all offered insight in varying ways , which he sought to reflect on over several years . |
| 24 | And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking , and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles 's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples . |
| 25 | I seemed to miss out on all the fun in those days , my spells afloat were few and far between , while ashore at Felixstowe I was very busy as trade in that port was building up rapidly . |
| 26 | Every night , he seemed to go out to posh nightclubs , to restaurants and to major pop concerts . |
| 27 | His way with birds and animals seemed to go out to all flowers and plants , too . |
| 28 | The GDR 's borders are now open , and the Government in Bonn poised to jump in with massive economic support for the process of political reform as it develops . |
| 29 | Last autumn he won round one when President Bush appointed him to lead a cabinet ‘ empowerment task force ’ , told to come up with specific proposals . |
| 30 | Vic Wilcox is in a meeting with his Marketing Director , Brian Everthorpe , who answered Vic 's summons at 9.30 complaining of contraflow holdups on the motorway , and whom Vic , himself dictating letters at 9.30 , told to come back at eleven . |