Example sentences of "fail [to-vb] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was reported on a discipline charge for failing to arrest the boy at the time . |
| 2 | When Roundhay failed to control the ball at the subsequent line-out , Foster thrust his way over . |
| 3 | In the Palaeozoic rocks there were other stalked filter-feeding echinoderms , which failed to survive the crisis at the end of the Permian , weathered by the crinoids . |
| 4 | One after another , men paid their money , swung the mallet and failed to ring the bell at the top of the standard . |
| 5 | The letter H. To drop one 's aitches is to fail to pronounce the /h/ at the beginning or end of a word by saying , for instance , 'am instead of ham . |