Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 2 | Where does the dream , the goal they so passionately formulated go to ? |
| 3 | The teenager , now 17-years-old , confided in a friend but shortly afterwards had to return to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee for another supervisor . |
| 4 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 5 | This may well have been produced in Venice , and it demonstrates how the idiom of Leonardo most probably became known to Venetian collectors and artists . |
| 6 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 7 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 8 | Keynesian economics no longer had to resort to the deus ex machina of postulating a ‘ sociologically determined ’ level of money wages . |
| 9 | He no longer bothered to talk to her when she brought him his coffee . |
| 10 | A report circulated in the spring of 1939 admitted that the camps ‘ became slave markets where people with the best intentions in the world went to help one child , yet unconsciously did harm to many by looking them over and rejecting them ’ . |
| 11 | A girl I was seeing pretty regularly had gone to France on an exchange visit to Tours I took a job for a couple of weeks in a lino warehouse with the idea of getting some money together |