Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 But I think it must be , I got up when he went to work , half past seven and I have n't sat down I have n't even sat down then to eat because I
2 She had looked round once to see if her guests were all in situ and observed that almost all the chairs were occupied .
3 Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill !
4 Marginal land had to be given up either to waste or to sheep and cattle , since it was no longer profitable to plough it .
5 In July 1984 the Princess had agreed to become patron of a small medical research charity called Birthright , which had been set up initially to try and minimize the dangers of pregnancy and childbirth .
6 In an undercover police operation in London a shop was set up purportedly to buy and sell jewellery commercially ; it was staffed solely by undercover officers purporting to be shady jewellers willing to buy stolen property .
7 They are never brought up again to taunt or accuse us .
8 ‘ As I passed the boy I saw in the mirror the car had pulled out sharply to overtake and I just heard the bang .
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