Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers traditionally tried to get rid of creatures in which they had no direct commercial interest , and town dwellers tried to banish moles , squirrels , and foxes from their gardens , and bats from their lofts . |
| 2 | Teixeira , the old I P leader , tried to get put in command of them , having up till now succeeded in putting as much distance between himself and those dangerous embarrassments as he could . |
| 3 | ‘ You appear to have kept in touch with many of them . ’ |
| 4 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |
| 5 | These two key members appear to have acted on behalf of , and in the name of , the committee by negotiating contributions to specific sections of the proposal with the representatives of the sectional interests . |
| 6 | These giant dustbins , some the size of a small garage , appear to have multiplied beyond count in recent years . |
| 7 | In fact , the collectorship of Aberdeenshire , formerly worth about £70 per annum to the holder , was considered to have increased in value to between £800 and £1,000 by 1800 . |
| 8 | Elizabeth Maxwell was reported to have moved to France after her husband 's death , leaving behind the family mansion , Oxford 's Headington Hill Hall . |
| 9 | Food prices were reported to have risen on average by 6 per cent during one week . |
| 10 | After the meeting , donors were reported to have responded with pledges of $120,000,000 . |
| 11 | Charles is reported to have spoken with Camilla on December 15 , 1989 , while staying in Cheshire with Lord Cholmondeley , at Cholmondeley Castle . |
| 12 | Baker was reported to have spoken with Bufi about human and political rights and to have promised US$6,000,000 in immediate humanitarian aid . |
| 13 | Thousands are reported to have died in custody over the past decade as a result . |
| 14 | Sporadic trouble , marked by strikes and demonstrations , continued in the coal industry throughout August , although a number of mines were reported to have returned to work by the end of the month following case-by-case wage settlements . |
| 15 | Sporadic trouble , marked by strikes and demonstrations , continued in the coal industry throughout August , although a number of mines were reported to have returned to work by the end of the month following case-by-case wage settlements . |
| 16 | Faced with revolt in the north by anti-government guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , the Djibouti government was reported to have appealed to France for military support , on the basis of the 1977 defence treaty between the two countries , and for the intervention of French forces stationed in Djibouti . |
| 17 | Spain was reported to have come under pressure from the EC 's Schengen group to tighten up immigration control ; the ultimate aim of the current Schengen Agreement signatories ( the Benelux countries , France , Germany and Italy ) was the abolition of border controls throughout the EC with an accompanying strengthening of external frontiers . |
| 18 | According to Mr. Mahmoud , he admitted them because they pretended to have come on behalf of the insurers . |
| 19 | Do they for a moment consider that most visitors to the like District want to feel surrounded by natives of the fells and not middle-class accents and protocol ? |
| 20 | A FINE rain was falling , filling the air with insubstantial droplets of water that seemed to hang suspended in limbo above the cobbles . |
| 21 | Even her heart seemed to have stopped in mid-beat in her breast . |
| 22 | A few moments ago she had been burning up in his arms , caught up in the fever of his lovemaking , but now the blood seemed to have turned to ice in her veins , frozen by his uncaring tones . |
| 23 | The whole business seemed to have shrunk in importance to the size of a peanut anyway . |
| 24 | He seemed to have come to terms with the end of his career but the fact he never spoke about his feelings was always a worry . ’ |
| 25 | But just as Eliot remarked that Shakespeare acquired from Plutarch more essential knowledge than most men could from the whole British Museum , so he himself seemed to have acquired from books like F. S. Oliver 's Endless Adventure an extraordinary grasp of historical movements and tendencies , for example the seventeenth century ‘ disassociation of sensibility ’ was a piece of historical perception which no pure historian would have been able to originate . |
| 26 | Crosby 's acceleration and close control were a frequent worry to Everton on the right but seven minutes before half-time the winger only seemed to have got past Snodin by fouling him . |
| 27 | Finally , they are said to have disagreed about technicalities in the baptismal service . |
| 28 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
| 29 | The best friend of Princess Diana 's brother was said to have arranged for bullion to be secretly exported to India . |
| 30 | The latter is said to have come to Karaman in order to study under Cemaleddin Aksarayi , although he almost abandoned the journey on reading that scholar 's in which he was very much disappointed . |