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resulting state (resultative): action in the past produces a state that persists into the present.
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anterior: the situation occurs prior to reference time, and is relevant to the situation at reference time. This is different from a simple past or perfective, where the situation is reported for its own sake and independent of its relevance to any other situation.
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A form that signals a situation that is prior to and relevant to a past reference time will be coded with two meaning labels, past and anterior.
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Simple sentences
Those agenda items were taken up en bloc for discussion.
In the German Wikipedia there are people who are such sticklers for rules, that other contributors, often far more knowledgeable, take to their heels en masse.
Tom died en route to the hospital.
Mary gave birth en route to the hospital.
Archeologists said there is evidence that an even earlier settlement, estimated to be about 7,000-years-old, exists below the buildings of En Esur.
En garde!
Tom is en route to Boston.
Movie subtitles
She died en route.
Or en route between Wadsworths' and the funeral home?
We do have units en route.
Asset en route.
Wonderful the trouble you've tak en for nothing.
Part of the funerary equipment of the Princess Anck-es-en-Amon, daughter of Amenophis the Magnificent.
The name of Anck-es-en-Amon.
Anck-es-en-Amon.
Sir Joseph was just wondering how you knew where the tomb of the Princess Anck-es-en-Amon was hidden.
Do not look, Anck-es-en-Amon.
I am Anck-es-en-Amon, but I.
The gods will receive into the underworld the spirit of Anck-es-en-Amon.
Can we sit here? - Je vous en prie.
En bas.
En route, she, Captain Jacoby and the falcon slipped completely through our fingers.
Faith, e'en by losing his wits.
E'en that.
Horatio. thou art e'en as just a man as ere my conversation coped withal.
The Marquis de Maynes is absent from the assembly. having been ordered by Her Majesty the Queen to inspect the orphanage. for young ladies of noble birth at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
For throwing open the windows and letting in. letting in la vie en rose.
A messenger cannot be trusted with all the city en fete.
La vie en rose.
En-cy-clo-pe-di.
We have an unspok en agreement never to mention last summer.
We should go en masse and demand to speak to whoever's in charge and make them understand they can't just keep us here.
Asset on board. En route.
No witnesses. We have units en route.
Paul Pons versus Raoul the Butcher. En garde!
Detectives en route to stake car KMA 367.
The Inspector informs us an eminent criminal proposes to intercept the cross en route.
Gardez la monnaie, je vous en prie.
Aux catacombes, en vitesse!
Monsieur le Duc, il y a les policiers en bas.
Je vous en prie.
But I hear no. They say my son of York hath almost overta'en him in his growth.
You shall have letters from me to my own son George on your behalf. to meet you on the way. Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.
News and current affairs
Once Korean students overthrew the dictatorship of Park's successor, Chung Doo-hwan, Korean scientists, engineers, economists, and others, returned home en masse, bringing knowledge acquired in the US with them.
They watched in horror as Amazon, en route to becoming the world's largest online retailer, pushed the bookstore chain Borders into bankruptcy, and have wondered if they will be next.
The fact that Hamas is refusing to make peace has nothing to do with the recent travesty in the sea en route to Gaza.
Likewise, France witnessed riots in Vaux-en-Velin, near Lyon, 20 years ago.
During these 150 years, Europeans emigrated en masse to Latin America, driving its population up by 50 million, to North America, which saw an increase of 75 million, and to Oceania, where the population rose by 11 million.
The secularists' gains were a wake-up call for the Islamists, and they responded en masse on July 29.
En route, Sophia studies videos of her opponent's past matches, while Sue catches up on emails and Sam orders appetizers and flowers for the party.
Private bondholders, people and entities who lent money to banks, are being allowed to pull out their money en masse and have it replaced by public debt.
When, in April 1999, ten thousand members of the Falun Gong sect appeared mysteriously in front of Zhongnanhai, the compound of the Chinese Communist Party's leadership, to be arrested en masse, observers found it hard to explain what was going on.
If that were true, investors would abandon, en masse, their efforts to ferret out mispricing in the market, because there wouldn't be any.
Nowadays, US policy on Asia needs the type of strategic vision and insight that guided Kissinger's discussions with Mao Zedong and Zhou En-lai four decades ago.
Some say that young people in the rich countries are just too well off to mobilize politically, at least en masse.
In the stolen images of him en route to a tryst, he seems to be outdoing himself.
At the same time, efforts are needed to strengthen deterrence near and en route to Europe's borders, through partnerships with major source and transit countries.
Yet, at the same time, as its baby boomers retire en masse in the coming decade, Europe will need workers at all skill levels.
Three generations after West Indians began immigrating en masse to the United Kingdom, Caribbean-descended Britons still doubt that their children or grandchildren will ever be seen as fully British.
The French turned out, en masse, to say that they did not want to see the Le Pen gang take possession of their regions.
Whenever Russia's people pour into the streets en masse, as they currently are doing, from that point on things never work out well for the authorities.
With European export orders canceled en masse, Chinese factories are faced with the prospect of massive layoffs.
Fiat wallows in crisis; university rectors resign en mass; judges attend the opening session of the judicial year carrying copies of the constitution as a warning to the government.