Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] and [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ enlightened classes ’ failed to appear and respond to a creed forged in their supposed interests : the propaganda of luces could no more create in Spain a bourgeoisie in the French image than the propaganda of free trade , half a century later , could create an English middle class . |
| 2 | And reluctantly MacArthur agreed to come and talk to the president . |
| 3 | That Nottinghamshire went on working reflects not simply the self-interest of its miners but more importantly the culture that their predecessors ( many of them their ancestors ) helped to create and transmit to the present . |
| 4 | This is how I came to know and subscribe to CD REVIEW whose cover-mounted CDs have been excellent . |
| 5 | Participation could perhaps be increased if the event is planned beforehand ; for example , it might be an advantage if groups of children who all live in the same area arranged to meet and cycle to school together . |
| 6 | ‘ Thanks , Belinda , ’ he said solemnly , trying to eat the fluffly mass even as it began to darken and stick to his fingers . |
| 7 | The aircraft were ranged on the decks before dawn , but on ‘ Furious ’ the first Fulmar failed to start and had to be put below . |
| 8 | He decided to go and speak to her . |
| 9 | After thought and prayer about its implications , Rajiv decided to co-operate and submitted to his parents ' wishes . |
| 10 | I reluctantly decided to stay and came to London knowing one lesbian . |
| 11 | Between them they have posed formidable challenges to our received notions of sexuality , challenges which historians are duty bound to confront and respond to . |
| 12 | She managed to escape and ran to a lorry parked nearby where she banged on the door to attract the driver 's attention . |
| 13 | Despite terrible deprivation , he managed to survive and returned to Japan after the war . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to sit and listen to a lot of boys acting as over-privileged plonkers , ’ said Ms d'Argy Smith , whose magazine forked out £1,000 to back the end-of-term debate . |
| 15 | The ceremony was thus quite depressing when I had to sit and listen to a boring , unknown , dreary , old codger who was ‘ GIVEN ’ an honorary degree — which course did he attend ? |
| 16 | She had to capitulate and admit to herself that she missed him terribly . |
| 17 | I felt awful as other children were upset and their mums looked horrified so I had to go and explain to each mum individually why I thought she did it and say that they were to feel free to stop her themselves and explain . |
| 18 | Well we had oh I 'm trying to think what we had today oh got out of assembly because I had to go and speak to this maths teacher who 's dead boring ! |
| 19 | Celia put two of the beers on the table , then she stood back , knuckles of her right hand on her hip , and said she had to go and talk to someone . |
| 20 | It seems that , despite the Council , pilgrims continued to come and go to the tomb of St Peter , and this was not irrelevant , for the noise and disturbance prevented many from hearing what was said . |
| 21 | As the hysterical media juggernaut pushed Charles and Diana along to the altar , she had to try and come to terms with her own feelings and thoughts about the Prince of Wales . |
| 22 | On 24 May Cabon told Greenpeace she had to leave and returned to Paris where she was able to report fully on its plans . |
| 23 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 24 | No , he had to stop and talk to the men checking the steel braces , did n't he ? |
| 25 | Robert Sanders noted exactly this problem when the party had to formulate and answer to Lloyd George 's land campaign of 1913 : " A certain number of our party go openly for wage boards . |
| 26 | Lord Mayor , I 'd like to firstly say why I refused to sit and listen to this next debate . |
| 27 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 28 | At times my sleepy little daughter was brought down from the nursery and stood on a stool while John draped pieces of material on her and showed me how he wanted the costume move and flow , and so help to illustrate what he wanted to express and convey to an audience . |
| 29 | The Collector selected just two more of these pistols , a small and reliable five-barrelled pistol by Lefaucheux of Paris , which he wanted to load and give to Miriam , and the English revolving pistol by Adams , which had caused such a stir at Woolwich by its lightness and by the rapidity with which it could be loaded and fired ( up to ten times a minute had been claimed for it ) . |
| 30 | On landing there he angrily refused to negotiate and demanded to be taken to Sweden and then the United States , warning in a note : ‘ We shall land in New York together , or die together . ’ |