Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 2 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 3 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 4 | A similar campaign finance bill ( including the honoraria ban and limitation on outside income ) was passed by the Senate in 1990 but was lost at the end of the congressional session when the two Houses failed to agree upon the final form of the legislation . |
| 5 | The glass of wine went quickly to each head , for Alix 's family was teetotal , and Liz 's alcohol consumption to that date comprised perhaps three glasses of brown sherry and one ( celebrating her A levels with her teacher ) of Liebfraumilch : Esther seemed better connected with drink as with friends , but even she became confiding under the mild influence . |
| 6 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 7 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 8 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 9 | A working group which was debating ways of running a common staff , increasingly became dominated by the apparent overmanning of both papers . |
| 10 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 11 | It is also worth noting that , as the analysts became immersed in the detailed examination , there was a tendency to forget that this was still part of the systems thinking stage , and that the models , activities and related information needs were those that were desirable in systems terms , and not did not necessarily reflect the real situation . |
| 12 | The child climbed out of the cab and became caught in the unguarded pto of the attached implement . |
| 13 | An objector , who had not given the notice required by the rule , was not allowed to oppose confirmation when he sought to appear before the confirming authority , and the licence was confirmed . |
| 14 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 15 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 16 | The cultivators became discouraged during the Japanese occupation and lack of export facilities , with the result that much land went out of cultivation . |
| 17 | One day , to escape heavy rain he wandered into a tavern called the ‘ Spotted Dog ’ which was kept by Joe Parrish , a veteran fighter , who became impressed with the young lad — then aged 16 — and began to teach him the science of the ring . |
| 18 | So the GEC approach was blocked while BOC 's lawyers got to work on the proposed take-over . |
| 19 | Dositej entered the Hopovo monastery in the Fruška Gora at the age of sixteen , but he soon became disillusioned with the restricted life of a monk and two years later he escaped . |
| 20 | Beginning with the organisation of bible classes in the rural communities while he was still a student at Cumberland University , he became disillusioned with the apparent inability of the current educational system to tackle adequately the problems of social and economic mis-development in Appalachia . |
| 21 | Yesterday , a management committee , which included members of Cheshire County Council , agreed to work with the National Trust in preparing a protest . |
| 22 | The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
| 23 | At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite . |
| 24 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 25 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 26 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 27 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 28 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
| 29 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 30 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |