Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a noise seemed to come from inside the walls of the house . |
| 2 | Oldham worked diligently to put Arsenal under maximum pressure from the start , and both O'Leary and Dixon had anxious moments as they strove to adjust to both the home attack and the artificial turf . |
| 3 | Dundee started the day at the foot of the Premier League but looked the superior side as the Glasgow club failed to deal with even the simplest cross into the box . |
| 4 | He began to smile from exactly the motive Adam had attributed to him , a desire to ingratiate and to defend himself , to turn away wrath . |
| 5 | Wisps of smoke began to blow from inside the shack . |
| 6 | Fenella began to speak at exactly the same moment that Pumlumon began to intone the Draoicht Suan . |
| 7 | but that was before the sound of constant splashing started to emanate from alongside the closing hole . |
| 8 | Even more amazing is how they managed to arrive at just the right place , and at just the right day and hour required , when not even Charles himself knew where he and his men would be . |
| 9 | Many employers ‘ contracted out ’ of the Graduated Pension Scheme and agreed to pay at least the same amount as their employees would have received from the State under the graduated scheme , from their own occupational scheme . |
| 10 | These were also powerfully promoted by domestic service at a time when even the meanest clerk expected to employ at least a resident maid-of-all-work . |
| 11 | Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9am the next day to check if she had won . |
| 12 | Finally , resolved to find at least a change of heat , I went on to Khartoum , which had the merit at least of being dry in contrast to the swelter up north . |
| 13 | By the late autumn of 1944 , in joint operations with the German forces , the Cossacks had cleared the Italian partisans out of their area , which they continued to garrison until nearly the end of the war . |
| 14 | We had to walk for about a week , sleeping during the day and continuing at night . |
| 15 | And Reynolds said he planned to return to indoor competition in the next couple of months and hoped to compete in both the world indoor and outdoor championships . |
| 16 | The effect , however , was that authorities had to live with both a GREA and a target and authorities spending above their target suffered a penalty even if their expenditure was within the GREA figure . |
| 17 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 18 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 19 | She had to get her hands back on the reins , had to re-establish at least a degree of control over her own life . |
| 20 | The building work was not complete — indeed , the kitchen was not finished until January , and we had to survive with only a gas primus stove . |
| 21 | That was an essential b eventually that was taken away , but the building trade still believed if a building firm wanted men , they had to have at least a thirty two hour guarantee , which is at present still in operation . |
| 22 | In the meantime , however , the Cubans sought to gain at least a breathing space by making a little known but highly significant approach to the United States . |
| 23 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 24 | As many as 35 per cent took jobs which they regarded as " stop-gap " or in which they intended to stay for only a short period . |