Example sentences of "[vb past] to [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wake of the dismissal last week USL promised to vigorously pursue the case to protect its rights , convinced its claims have merit . |
| 2 | Haverford was writing his ‘ Jottings ’ , young Jacqueline was splashing in her arm-bands while her two older sisters tried to further define the watch marks on their wrists . |
| 3 | In September 1939 , a request came to fully convert the two brake vehicles for each train by the provision of the necessary cupboards and other amenities required the LMS to provide 15 trains . |
| 4 | The record seemed to openly encourage the backlash which , amazingly , The Smiths had thus far avoided . |
| 5 | The room had a fireplace , sink , cooker and another feature which seemed to particularly arouse the curiosity of our visitor : an enamel bath below the window . |
| 6 | She never seemed to completely shake the dumb blonde image , perhaps because her squeaky little girl voice operated to remind us all along that she was a Working Girl rather than Woman . |
| 7 | And yet there were times , fleeting but strangely precious times , when he seemed to momentarily forget the war of nerves raging between them . |
| 8 | Magic , however , seemed to precisely describe the success of the ‘ Carry On ’ formula after the Sergeant film . |
| 9 | Her hauntingly beautiful face seemed to perfectly encompass the vulnerability of adolescence . |
| 10 | He vowed to continuously challenge the Government . |
| 11 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 12 | Averting her eyes , she stared down at the ironing-board , then , for the lack of any other brilliant alternatives , began to slowly move the iron back and forth across her blouse , her face shuttered . |
| 13 | There was a long , emotionally charged silence as they stared at one another , before he began to roughly shrug the jacket from his broad shoulders . |
| 14 | As his strong hands began to gently sponge the sand and sea water from her trembling body her emotions seemed to be spinning out of control . |
| 15 | Dorcas began to really wish the old woman would n't do that . |
| 16 | Nell turned away and began to eagerly search the mass of notes , manuals and graphs stacked on desks . |
| 17 | A wave of hot colour swept over her as she wriggled to somehow attach the bedspread around her without letting it slip and giving this mocking character another full frontal . |
| 18 | Before 1985 , there were few specialist primary advisers ; the LEA then started to rapidly expand the service , the exercise coinciding with restructuring of the administration as a whole . |
| 19 | After recently having an exchange engine professionally fitted to my 1980 Range Rover , I decided to completely renew the suspension using heavy duty front and rear springs ‘ G ’ on front ‘ Y ’ on rear and four new shock absorbers . |
| 20 | After careful consideration Ted decided to deep plough the land and prepare it for cultivation . |
| 21 | Their working day is a succession of lessons for which they have either prepared something interesting , dug out last year 's notes , decided to just do the next bit in ‘ the book ’ , or are unprepared . |
| 22 | The AGM also decided to radically alter the structure of the BHRCA . |
| 23 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 24 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 25 | As a consequence , the complexity of some teachers ' classroom organization appeared to greatly increase the proportion of the time during which children were distracted , awaiting attention or working only sporadically . |
| 26 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 27 | I had to practically draft the report myself ! ’ |
| 28 | We also had a polyester business where we had to both change the technology and the products if we were to win . |
| 29 | The right hand was better at balancing unless the subject had to concurrently repeat the alphabet , in which case both hands performed equally well . |
| 30 | But Saddam had to just play the whole game , and er , he must have got a lot of propaganda out of this , must n't he ? |