Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not abandon this policy even after the debacle at Athens , when her deposition of the anti-Spartan Pisistratids in 510 resulted in a regime even more vigorously hostile to herself , which she tried and failed to overthrow in its turn . |
| 2 | Maximus tried to reconquer Rome but failed and had to call in the help of his British brothers-in-law . |
| 3 | All at once guilt fluttered and began to beat in her mind like dark wings . |
| 4 | His father died , two years later she remarried and went to live in France . |
| 5 | The Butcher grunted and began to rummage in a metal box . |
| 6 | Again , it highlighted something that , as a teacher , I knew but failed to utilize in other aspects of my work — that simple pictures and diagrams highlight the obvious more easily than paragraphs of words . |
| 7 | She could have argued that if they went as planned to farm in another country , nobody would know about her past . |
| 8 | When Professor Fogelman undertook a survey of school work for the Speaker 's Commission , he collected a most eclectic list of topics which teachers proffered as contributing to work in this field . |
| 9 | Schoolteachers , power workers , post office engineers , staff at the Royal Mint and sections of the newspaper industry were among those who either struck or worked to rule in a bid to break the pay policy . |
| 10 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 11 | Caught between no less than three armies the Chaos hordes faltered and began to charge in every direction , bewildered and confused by this new turn of events . |
| 12 | When Phillip retired and went to live in Brighton , in the 1970s , it was Meli , not Marje , who moved there with him . |
| 13 | In 1947 Stewart retired and went to live in High Wycombe . |