Example sentences of "and [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
2 | As usual , Len had side-tracked himself , but what would his reaction have been if he had satisfied his curiosity and said , ‘ Yes , I have a mother : she is now living alone in a manor house in Northumberland , ’ and had gone on to tell him , why . |
3 | He had been on the phone in the morning and had gone in to work to check that all is well . |
4 | I do n't know how else we should do it , ’ and had gone off to prepare their evening meal . |
5 | He had pulled a hamstring during his warm-up and had done well to patrol as relentlessly as he did for an hour . |
6 | They had presumably been drawn to Bologna as students and had stayed there to carve themselves out a teaching or professional career . |
7 | But the man raised no objections to a search and had dashed off to keep an appointment , leaving the police to their work . |
8 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
9 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
10 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
11 | By the time Roirbak had reached his workbench and had sat down to ponder over whether he could pay Jahsaxa enough compensation to drop Crevecoeur and why he should want to do that for anyone anyway , Mellissa the receptionist fluted her chimes over his commset . |
12 | Halfway to Porto the 1200 Lisbon Volmet said ‘ 1 CB at 2,500 ’ , so back we went : we had tried , and had agreed not to repeat the previous day 's experience . |
13 | Mr Hume said the committee made only one annual special visit to a selected EC region , and had agreed unanimously to come to Northern Ireland later this year . |
14 | The administrative officer of ‘ A ’ Squadron , Lieut John Todd , in a letter written towards the end of July , told me that Leslie 's aircraft was one of several which had dropped men in France on 17 June , and that the other planes had accomplished their mission successfully and had returned safely to base . |
15 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |
16 | He recognized the voice of Beverley 's servant , Parry , who had become anxious about Giles 's safety , and had set out to search for him . |
17 | Weiss was Ritschl 's son-in-law , and had set out to investigate the theme of the kingdom of God in the synoptic gospels with a suspicion that it amounted to something rather different from what Ritschl had made of it . |