Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 2 | He never committed an army to the field without being sure that he could bring overwhelming force to bear and never fought a battle without being sure he could win it . |
| 3 | I did n't know which animal to choose and neither did the robot . |
| 4 | They had twice had in their possession the girl they were sent to recapture and once had the boy . |
| 5 | He taught his children to swim and also helped the singer with his breathing . |
| 6 | I was sent on with a minute to go and never touched the ball . |
| 7 | They used up space in the vans , required time to unload and ultimately made the shops look messy . |
| 8 | But the company 's indebtedness continued to grow and soon exceeded the £135,000 figure . |
| 9 | At this point we suspected that she was hypersensitive to dexamethasone and therefore withdrew the drug . |
| 10 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
| 11 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
| 12 | She did nothing to help but constantly chivvied the girls and interfered when they were serving customers . |
| 13 | As farmers who concentrated on stock-rearing and , increasingly , on dairying , they had sufficient resources to survive but rarely had the means to expand their activities . |
| 14 | However those who were present did their best to entertain and possibly tried a little too hard in some cases . |
| 15 | As agreed in August 1988 [ see pp. 36294-95 ] New Zealand and Australia on July 1 , 1990 , abolished all remaining barriers to trade and thus completed the closer economic relations ( CER ) agreement which provided for completely free trade in goods , services and other commercial dealings between the two countries . |