Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1986 BMA report on complementary medicine ( widely criticised for its lack-lustre approach ) only allowed that there was value in the time devoted to patients and called for more scientific evaluation . |
| 2 | No , he erm , I say with videos that they , they send a video over an Australian thing , this chap 's the other two and one of them had a camera and he went aboard to test pilot it and he took the all around the place round er having flown six five minutes and he paid he tried to things that had gone wrong , whatever it was and erm , he , he , he 's . |
| 3 | The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other . |
| 4 | Whereas before she had been a rough-and-ready Italian peasant , flashing with high spirits , now she thought a little about how she seemed to others and tempered her boisterous good humour . |
| 5 | She turned to Piers and resumed her intense conversation with him . |
| 6 | Armed with restored confidence , a new machine and — hopefully — a little luck , I now returned to sites that had seemed promising but had yielded very little . |
| 7 | Police launched an investigation into Henry 's death the next morning … they talked to party-goers and tried to trace the supply chain of the drug . |
| 8 | Thank you Stephen from Leicestershire , he says that he has seen people tied to posts and set on fire . |
| 9 | While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development . |
| 10 | Dioxins caused by the explosion clung to particles that settled over surrounding countryside . |
| 11 | Disproportionately she had longed , in the interminable wastes of adolescence , in the grey and monotonous steppes , and some of the longing had attached itself to this night , this one night of the year , when others ( she knew from school friends , from the radio , from novels ) , when others went to parties and celebrated whatever was about to be . |
| 12 | Pocock was not spared the treatment , and he and at least three colleagues fell to balls that flew to throat height . |
| 13 | In their experiment , subjects listened to sentences and pushed a button as soon as they heard a target word . |
| 14 | We played cards , listened to records and danced . |
| 15 | She listened to cicadas and breathed the pervasive liquorice which grew locally and was processed in a factory on the Nîmes road . |
| 16 | The 20,000 residents — two-thirds Muslim ; one-third Serb — took to cellars or fled . |