Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] stage " in BNC.

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1 I found , in retrospect , that my participant observation had a ‘ career ’ that seemed to proceed through three stages : passive , interactive and active .
2 The guests were never less than courteous to one another , but for all that , a rather tense atmosphere , characterized largely by distrust , seemed to prevail at this stage .
3 They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order .
4 ’ Tom , therefore , had to pass through various stages of purification , in which water is the essential element , before he can be reunited in heaven with Ellie , the well-brought-up little girl , into those bedroom in Harthover House he had so unceremoniously descended by way of the chimney .
5 What the song was that we had to sing on this stage , with it .
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