Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an experiment , people were given three identical T-shirts to smell and asked to select the one that they had worn . |
| 2 | When he moved into this intriguing 19th-century house , he had a clear idea of how he wanted it to look and decided to design the decor himself . |
| 3 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 4 | Coalition had become a political habit that would be quite difficult to break and had sapped the party 's confidence in itself . |
| 5 | I was told I was getting a direct order , but I refused to pack and asked to see the governor . |
| 6 | At first the Russians had been driven back in disorder , but in the months of July and August they had begun to recover and had driven the Poles back on their tracks until finally the Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw itself . |
| 7 | Charles had persuaded Miles to stop and tried ringing the bell on the gate . |