Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An undertrained and under-educated work-force led inexorably to balance of payments problems . |
| 2 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 3 | She could hear cars and lorries swooshing past and tried desperately to call for help but she had no breath . |
| 4 | She held out her arms and tried desperately to grab at Jones 's reins , but three quarters of a ton of racehorse hit her head-on at nearly forty miles an hour and the three went down in a heap . |
| 5 | She moved away to talk to Eustace Tolby who had come with his wife , an elegant Asian woman . |
| 6 | Disappointed by her dull response , he moved away to talk to Muriella . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was one aspect of his life that Charles found hard to come to terms with , especially during this period when he was evaluating and reassessing his role in life . |
| 9 | The King hoped next to see Baldwin , but the Conservative leader could not be found : he was , ironically , lunching with Geoffrey Dawson , the editor of The Times , and discussing Cabinet appointments — something he found easier to do with Dawson than with his party colleagues . |
| 10 | In the morning Nigel tried faintly to argue about money . |
| 11 | Derek Jeffries was bought for Crystal Palace for £100,000 in September 1973 by Manager Malcolm Allison , who h , ad also been his boss at Manchester City , to help boost Palace 's struggling midfield as we sought desperately to come to terms with life after relegation to Division Two . |
| 12 | But , miraculously , everything seemed suddenly to fit into place and we managed to put all the horror behind us and start again . |
| 13 | As they skirted the smooth lawns on the way back to the car park Merrill dropped behind to walk with Sam who was now complacently asserting that all this exercise had given him an appetite for dinner . |
| 14 | No , Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others . |
| 15 | ‘ I was left with very little money , came here to live in Crow Court , because it is cheap . |
| 16 | Although commissions of array continued to be used for major expeditions led by the king or the Prince of Wales , such as those of 1346 and 1359 , the armies which fought in France came increasingly to consist of volunteers rather than conscripts ; and this in itself goes some way towards explaining popular support for the war . |
| 17 | After Independence , Partition and the departure of most British and Muslim cadres from the ICS , Nehru , the new Prime Minister , who had previously been less than sympathetic to the ICS , came increasingly to depend upon men such as Pillai , who — embodying the Service 's traditions of discretion and loyalty — had no difficulty in serving a new master . |
| 18 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |
| 19 | The woman seemed to change in front of Kim 's eyes , seemed almost to grow in size . |
| 20 | But and you know , like , for mothers er trying to get buggies and shopping and everything up , they 'd either to go up stairs or down stairs . |
| 21 | erm because , to get in to the flat they 'd either to go up stairs from the deck , or downstairs from the deck , and to try and manage that with small children , probably a buggy and shopping as well . |
| 22 | The carrier sailed again to schedule on May 1 , 1942 — a really magnificent performance . |
| 23 | Traditionally looked upon as the capital of the former Visigothic kingdom of Aquitaine it seemed therefore to belong to Aquitaine . |
| 24 | Will my right hon. Friend find time today to tell the House of the decision made yesterday to restore to Latvia , Lithuania and Estonia the gold deposited for safe keeping in the Bank of England but misappropriated by the then Labour Government with the support in the Division Lobby of the leader and Chief Whip of the Liberal party at that time ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the same year , it became harder to re-qualify for unemployment benefit once entitlement had been exhausted . |
| 27 | She turned slowly to look towards Tallis , her eyes fierce , her mouth twisted with fury . |
| 28 | The challenge , from a unionist candidate in today 's local government elections , comes only days after people from the Falls and the Shankill joined together to protest at moves to cut jobs and operations at the hospital . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |