Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had no time to aim and fired off four shots in rapid succession . |
| 2 | The winner of stage eight was the Australian , Patrick Jonker , who escaped from the leading break of 13 riders with a mile to go and came in 12 seconds ahead in a time of 4 hours 40 minutes 45 seconds for the 125 miles . |
| 3 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 4 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 5 | He does all the brooding , leaving the female free to mate and lay in all the other nests within her territory . |
| 6 | He continued to campaign successfully without ever managing to secure the British title he wanted to win and retired in 1939 with the racist rule still intact . |
| 7 | The requirements for military or test pilots place less emphasis on the number of flying hours required and this is compensated for by the more stringent type of flying they have been involved in ( though it is true that a large proportion of airline pilots learned to fly and served in military aviation before becoming civil pilots ) . |
| 8 | Recent lack of success on the track made sponsorship hard to get and led to financial problems . |