Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months later , England were in the Caribbean for a tour that , in the problems they encountered , lacked only a riot to round it off . |
| 2 | Then the briefest pause before he drew aside the curtain to enter with dignity and calm . |
| 3 | Cannonball Shearer cracked home a gem to give Blackburn a face-saving 1-1 draw in Wednesday 's Coca Cola Cup-tie at Huddersfield . |
| 4 | You may recall that I proposed earlier a scheme to do just that — namely , the registration of a new entry , but accompanied by a code known to the Registrar which would alert him in any case of attempted fraud . |
| 5 | HOWEVER , HIS SINGING CAREER STARTED in , of all places , the pop charts : ‘ I was sixteen years old at the time , and at the end of the sixties it seemed just the thing to do . |
| 6 | Our little grandson Mark , now two years old , came once a week to stay the night with us to delight us with his charming presence . |
| 7 | Mrs Bennet came every day to look after Julia now and Bridie and Carrie came nearly every day to visit her . |
| 8 | But Rosie would n't be alone — she came here every year to run the chemist 's shop her father owned , and was n't likely to be without companionship for the evening . |
| 9 | Three-quarters of a million people came there every day to work . |
| 10 | The treasury at Winchester was the permanent repository ; this was coming to be controlled by the Exchequer , the audit department , to which the sheriffs and other officers came twice a year to deliver the royal taxes and to make an account of their stewardship . |
| 11 | In one of his speeches , the right hon. Gentleman spoke of a council that met once a year to put out contracts , had a good lunch and then went home . |
| 12 | She might consider joining Ellie Niven 's women 's group which met once a week to promote the interests of their sex . |
| 13 | For mothers , feminists claimed only the right to extend their domestic influence beyond the home , and to practise what was later termed ‘ social ’ or ‘ civic maternalism ’ . |
| 14 | The coffee was hot and fragrant , and she drank greedily while he threw wide the shutters to reveal that all traces of the fog had gone and it was a clear , bright day . |
| 15 | The philosophers claimed both the privilege to attend to epistemological questions and the privilege of epistemology to be the sole locus for debate about what was ‘ true ’ knowledge . |
| 16 | Well you got nearly a mile to walk when he gets to the station . |
| 17 | The match proceeded at a pace not much sharper than a cast of world veterans had produced earlier — including United 's own Bobby Charlton , who popped home a goal to show his heirs how to do it . |
| 18 | He perceived instead a need to reintegrate both these types of drama and a parallel need to ‘ strive towards a reintegration of life ’ . |
| 19 | She stepped forward a moment to admire a cabinet of gleaming silver — quite the most beautiful collection imaginable — and it was in that moment that something caught her eye . |
| 20 | Having by her haphazard diplomatic behaviour dug a pit for her own feet , Austria needed only a push to send her tumbling . |
| 21 | Having beaten the Royal Navy , who then defeated the RAF , the Army needed only a draw to give them their 29th outright title , but they seldom generated the cohesion necessary to trouble what was a disciplined RAF team . |
| 22 | By 1914 it needed only a spark to start the conflagration . |
| 23 | She pulled open a drawer to drop the note in . |
| 24 | Father Devlin called twice a year to collect the Easter and Christmas dues . |
| 25 | Queen Margaret , white-faced and with dark-ringed eyes , nodded slightly and Catesby prised loose the lid to reveal white , gauze cloths which gave off a sweet fragrant perfume . |
| 26 | In his letter of Aug. 14 Saddam had underlined his determination " not to keep any of Iraq 's potential outside the arena of the great duel " and it was widely believed that this implied either an intention to consolidate Iraqi gains in Kuwait or launch an attack against Saudi Arabia . |
| 27 | McLeish decided that since she was unaware of her audience it did not become him to be selfconscious , and asked what she expected even a Senator to achieve in these circumstances ? |
| 28 | It took Churchward a while to realize that this language was in fact Naacal , the first language of humankind , which could be translated by , at best , a couple of Indian ( or maybe they were Tibetan ) sages . |
| 29 | Even when the blossom was browned by heavy frost just before Christmas , it took only a fortnight to recover . |
| 30 | While Charlie quickly mastered the art of mapreading it was Tommy who took only a day to find his way round a rifle . |