Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 2 | I wanted to reply to your star letter about the lady who wanted to work but had small children and found it difficult . |
| 3 | It is no doubt for this reason that the Syrian foreign minister , Farouk at-Shara , has gone out of his way to emphasise that continued Syrian support depends on the way in which the West responds to what Syria perceives to be the fundamental problem of Middle Eastern security — the Arab-Israeli dispute and the Palestinian issue . |
| 4 | It retained water and yet had subtle membranes which permitted air to penetrate and facilitated waste disposal of the embryo . |
| 5 | She has now learned to drive and joined this year 's flag day to add £31,76p to her total . |
| 6 | And there is evidence to suggest that sustained aerobic walking not only increases BMR but that the increased BMR continues permanently . |
| 7 | Barcelona looked home and dry when going 2-0 up after 31 minutes but the Russians refused to surrender and scored three goals in 16 minutes either side of half-time . |
| 8 | He tried to smile but darted anxious glances at me , at the pig and back again . |
| 9 | This species of Rasbora is quite easy to breed and provided full females and active males are chosen , they usually spawn successfully . |
| 10 | This teaching appealed to many ordinary people because it was simple to understand and made Christian obedience appear much easier than it really was . |
| 11 | This story should not imply that there was not still a great deal of grief to be expressed by the children , but it serves to demonstrate that enforced anticipatory grief can do a great deal of harm if the timing of it is interfered with . |
| 12 | The students seemed to gain in confidence in their ability to make decisions for themselves about what to teach and showed increasing understanding of the need to vary and sequence activities in the course of a lesson . |
| 13 | But the two defendants ( who were not in court ) had in 1985 pleaded guilty to assault and received suspended sentences , fines and an order to pay compensation . |
| 14 | It must be understood that engagement in those days was a very serious matter which involved a written contract of intent to marry and needed legal consent if the engagement was to be broken off . |
| 15 | Set the back carriage to knit and knit four rows . |
| 16 | Rapid market growth and sector under-capacity encouraged Pilkingtons to expand and attracted new entrants to the marketplace without adverse effects on profits . |
| 17 | Perfectionism is out of place in war and the practical problem was to condemn and ground those gliders which were dangerously attacked and to detect and stop the rot in those in which the attack was trivial . |
| 18 | It is probably fair to say that continued detailed study of the Lorenz equations will go on throwing out new ideas of general applicability , despite their rather special properties ( e.g. symmetry ) . |
| 19 | Army Intelligence and Police Special Branch informant networks allowed British South East Asia Command ( SEAC ) to implement effective tactical plans to block and hit communist bandits transiting through the jungle towards hard civilian and military objectives . |
| 20 | I could see the attraction for the Government ; a positive response was more difficult to formulate and meant more work . |
| 21 | More optimistically , facilities management company Northern Computing Services , acquired in May , returned to profit as did Integrated Engineering Products Ltd , which is seeing in 1993 with healthy order books . |