Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethics have been downgraded or diluted or made to fit into narrow understandings . |
| 2 | He pulled on his shoes , rose and began to jog along the road in the direction the car had taken . |
| 3 | He rose and began to dance round the room . |
| 4 | Benjamin ignored them , lost in his own thoughts , but at last Scawsby , his sallow face flushed with wine , rose and came to stand over me . |
| 5 | But something did delay her ; she stopped and stood to stare at a marvel of nature , so strange as to suspend belief . |
| 6 | ‘ A strange monastic-looking man , ’ said Harold Macmillan , ‘ emaciated and said to live off watercress grown off the blotting paper on his desk . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Looks as if Lotus Development Corp is being shopped around as a merger partner : according to the Wall Street Journal , Borland International Inc 's Philippe Kahn discussed a possible merger with Lotus 's Jim Manzi last month , although the talks were inconclusive , and elsewhere Manzi was seen to have been in deep discussions over dinner with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Scott McNealy ; Lotus of course tried and failed to merge with Novell Inc . |
| 9 | She looked at Mairi , who happened to glance over and catch her eye ; and the woman howled and started to moan at the very sight of the wee lass . |
| 10 | On June 7 , 1989 , a DC-8 aircraft belonging to Surinam Airways crashed while trying to land at Zanderij airport . |
| 11 | An Indian Airlines Airbus 320 crashed when attempting to land at Bangalore airport , south India , on Feb. 14 ; 92 of the 146 people aboard were killed . |
| 12 | More than half of the children were ignored whatever they did — whether they cried , played or tried to talk to the adult . |
| 13 | The younger , a stocky brown cob , snickered and turned to look at them . |
| 14 | Any road , erm when I went back to see her she said of the ones who came and asked to go on it , we 've accepted you , but no more . |
| 15 | A year later she met and began to live with C. , who was the father of her baby who was later to be stillborn . |
| 16 | Maximus tried to reconquer Rome but failed and had to call in the help of his British brothers-in-law . |
| 17 | All at once guilt fluttered and began to beat in her mind like dark wings . |
| 18 | Some fleeting affairs , but things without heat ; all the passion of her being , head and heart , which she sought and longed to give with a fierceness that no one knew , that belied her cool exterior , varnished nails and ( she hoped ) elegant way . |
| 19 | Then he frowned and seemed to consider for a moment . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , that cuts them out of my book , unless , of course , they 're entertaining , witty , rich , and — ’ Here he turned and began to march from the room , saying , ‘ have the sense to appreciate my worth . ’ |
| 21 | A dark shape appeared in the gateway to the bridge , then turned and began to climb down some hidden steps in the wall . |
| 22 | She turned and began to run down the stairs . |
| 23 | I turned and started to head for the dunes at a slow run . |
| 24 | He turned and started to run down the road , southwards , into Dresden . |
| 25 | But the troops rebelled and refused to leave during the winter . |
| 26 | His father died , two years later she remarried and went to live in France . |
| 27 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 28 | He sighed and started to walk towards her . |
| 29 | Later that evening Heathcliff 's servant Joseph arrived and asked to speak to the master . |
| 30 | Isis then arrived and offered to cure Re with her magic but demanded to know his name . |