Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tanjug reported that most of the approximately 600,000 Serbs in Croatia had failed to participate in the elections . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , in a series of moves capped by the Education Reform Act and the proposals for a national ( or , as some were quick to point out , national ist ) curriculum , the Conservative government had effectively challenged and undermined the fragile liberal consensus Swann had tried to erect in the mid-1980s . |
| 3 | Müller had offered to help in the hope of persuading him to invest in something less fantastic . |
| 4 | Mr McGimpsey had planned to stand in the seven-seat Victoria ward where the UUP holds three seats . |
| 5 | Presently the port was gone and the fire gone and Tuppe had gone to sleep in the portmanteau . |
| 6 | Rafsanjani denied reports of co-operation between Iran and Pakistan on the production of nuclear arms , and refused to indicate whether Iran had sought to mediate in the recent outbreak of sectarian violence between Shias and Sunnis [ see pp. 38968 ; 39009 ] , saying that " Pakistani Shiites decide for themselves " . |
| 7 | Although the FIS had refused to participate in the conference without prior acceptance of its demands , which included the release of FIS leaders arrested in June [ see p. 38312 ] , it was understood that channels of communication between the government and the FIS had remained open . |
| 8 | She was stitching the holes Rosie had managed to rip in the seat of his pants in the few seconds they were in her possession . |
| 9 | Tamas had attempted to stand in the same constituency in the 1985 general election , but had been thwarted by what he had alleged to be communist manipulation of the candidate selection process [ see p. 33812-13 ] . |
| 10 | He glanced up to where Merrill had come to stand in the doorway , an amused smile flickering across his sensual mouth , his eyes slightly mocking . |