Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy Mitchell , seated at the rear of the Variety Tent , sighed in sympathy as , one after another , the right card failed to appear from or disappear into the deck . |
| 2 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
| 3 | The Moffat Discovery has been designed and built to conform to or exceed all relevant British Standards so it is guaranteed to be safe , reliable and engineered to the highest quality . |
| 4 | At that same moment , however , Travis , who had appeared equally dumbstruck , seemed to come to and realise that he could no longer continue to speak openly of his love or his problems . |
| 5 | I liked and respected people , but here I learnt to listen to and rely on others . |
| 6 | Luke seemed to flinch as if hurt . |
| 7 | The corpse in the cage seemed to shift as if seeking release . |
| 8 | A century before William Booth had seen the need of the " submerged tenth " of Britain whom nobody else seemed to care about and declared " These people are our people . " |
| 9 | His eyes strayed to the rosy-cheeked children who were chattering happily and , to Meredith 's delight , he began to talk as if questioning his own feelings . |
| 10 | They said they had decided to stop counselling , because they felt they needed to think about and digest what they had talked about so far . |
| 11 | It is not accidental that the assertion of ‘ the rights of man ’ has been characteristic of revolutionary regimes which aspired to interfere with and overturn the systems of law and society of their neighbours ; and there could be no more striking evidence of the antagonism of Soviet Russia to Trotskyism than that ‘ human rights ’ have to be forced down its throat at Helsinki or Belgrade like spoonfuls of brimstone . |
| 12 | She refused to put the lunch on any earlier in the day ; it would spoil the coffee mornings she liked to go to or have at her own home from eleven to one o'clock . |
| 13 | We had no shoes for 'em so my mate and I had to set to and make the shoes and shoe them . |
| 14 | This coincided with their belief that the ordinary person wished to travel from and arrive at great palaces which , with their concourses , restaurants , shops , information centres , medical facilities , theatres , and ( later ) cinemas constituted virtually civic centres or forums , an impression heightened by the fact that they were often also used for political speeches . |