Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Nonconformist Beecher connection and the special relationship between American and British reformers which Nonconformists were doing so much to cement that paved the way for Uncle Tom . |
| 2 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 3 | All too often the old system created barriers to work and penalised the thrifty . |
| 4 | Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’ |
| 5 | Since our June issue , we have chosen to standardise and dropped the ‘ e ’ from the name ; sources are 50/50 on the spelling ! |
| 6 | Finally , however , he and his team have bowed to demand and devised a fantastic hair-care collection which is available from Harrods , Knightsbridge , London SW1 . |
| 7 | She felt herself beginning to shake and grasped the back of a chair to steady herself . |
| 8 | Papandreou , accused of breach of public trust and of accepting bribes as part of a US$200,000,000 bank embezzlement in 1988 , refused to appear and dismissed the trial as an attempt to discredit his party , the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( Pasok ) . |
| 9 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 10 | Lord Scarman rejected current medical practice as the test for what a patient needs to know and asserted the patient 's right to know based on self-determination . |
| 11 | The stewards allowed the result to stand but quizzed the jockeys , clerk of the course Philip Arkwright and the racecourse foreman . |
| 12 | For example , the late John Strachey , former Minister of Food , used to contend that had the notorious African Ground Nuts Scheme been placed just 30 miles to the West of the site chosen in Tanganyika ( now Tanzania ) , the climate differed just sufficiently there that all would have been well . |
| 13 | Cos you did n't know whether they 'd had er you know had a lot to drink or had a load of drugs and start going on the rampage or something . |
| 14 | Both resorted to drink and felt an overwhelming need for Norman . |
| 15 | In his teens , he learned to drink and swore an allegiance to the pint . |
| 16 | My horse Paddy obviously did n't share my enthusiasm to explore and took a considerable amount of cajoling , digging , tapping and firm slapping before he would lift one hoof from the ground and get going . |
| 17 | We could get low to inspect and saw the plight they were in . |
| 18 | The shaman was still determined to resist and encouraged the growing unrest among the warriors . |
| 19 | First Paul Nixon showed intelligence when he ignored an opportunity to shoot and pulled the ball back instead for the better-placed David Mehew to score and then , two minutes later , Mehew combined with Devon White before sending over a cross that Gary Penrice , a yard out , accepted with relish . |
| 20 | Paul 's verdict : These trousers were comfortable to wear and did the required job effectively . |
| 21 | Sir Alec Cairncross , a former Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury , heaps praise on the Attlee governments at the end of his highly regarded study Years of Recovery : ‘ Whether one tries to look forward from 1945 or backwards from forty years later , those years appear in retrospect , and rightly so , as years when the government knew where it wanted to go and led the country with an understanding of what was at stake . |
| 22 | And do you know father used to now where they used to and he used to go and caught a lot of them . |
| 23 | Mr Simpson spoke of the unaccustomed burden the landladies were having to carry and stressed the need for ‘ good public relations work ’ . |
| 24 | Orcadai gestured them to silence and paced the length of the room . |
| 25 | They came with nothing to lose and played a very relaxed game . |
| 26 | I chose the sketches I wanted to perform and wrote an over-long introduction based on why I felt drawn to Joyce . |
| 27 | She asked us to wait and indicated a nest of Bauhaus leather armchairs . |
| 28 | Could there have been a fight causing him to fall and hit the back of his head on something ? |
| 29 | She had never learned to drive and disliked the train because , she said , you were too low in a train to see properly . |
| 30 | There was nothing to suggest that had the evidence been excluded that result would necessarily have been the same . |