Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed to establish a working group to formulate an accord of " neighbourliness , friendship and co-operation " . |
| 2 | Moscow tried to encourage the non-aligned states to commit themselves in this region to the ‘ gradual curtailment of distinct forms of military-political cooperation … the non-creation of new forms of multilateral and bilateral alliances , the non-adoption of military functions by non-military regional organisations ’ . |
| 3 | At Ashness Bridge , one of the most frequented sites in the Lakes , he helped to launch a major programme to combat the erosion caused by the pounding of millions of visitors ' feet over the years . |
| 4 | She tried to find the right words to explain but discovered only a great disconnection between her brain and her voice , which ensured her silence . |
| 5 | He proposed to create an additional fund to increase the endowment and started it off himself with a donation of £1,000 . |
| 6 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 7 | Roy Smith , Labour member for Clacton West , tried to persuade the whole council to reject plans to close Priory Meadow , at St Osyth . |
| 8 | Opposition members tried to persuade the ruling Tories to push up spending to the Government-imposed limit and put extra cash towards economic development and jobs . |
| 9 | It is argued that the vacuum which this created permitted the Labour Party to emerge . |
| 10 | In his invasion manifesto , William had made no mention of intending the throne for himself , and had avoided any attacks on James , but instead had blamed the King 's evil counsellors , and promised to call a free Parliament to settle the affairs of the Kingdom . |
| 11 | My gun jammed and William recognised me and came forward laughing and firing shot after shot at me while I waved and tried to duck and these yellow paint balls went splat , splat , thunking into my hired camouflage trousers and combat jacket and smacking into my visored helmet while I waved at him and tried to get the damn gun to work and he just walked forward slowly shooting me ; bastard had his own paint gun and he 'd probably had it souped up ; knowing William , that was almost inevitable . |
| 12 | An AA spokesman said : ‘ People tried making an early getaway to beat the traffic but they 've all met up and combined with others returning home from work . ’ |
| 13 | Remember those soldiers who stopped fighting the Great War to play football across the Flanders trenches and exchange sweeties ? |
| 14 | Nine priests came down from Oxford and tried to lay the troubled soul to rest in a nearby pool . |
| 15 | Between 1974 and 1976 the Labour government tried to operate a counter-cyclical policy to keep full employment in the face of the first world depression for forty years . |
| 16 | The committee agreed to urge the Scottish Office to progress as soon as possible and to continue talks on the role of the public sector in the new bridge and its future management . |
| 17 | Thus at times one of the Whig connections might work together with a Tory connection in the service of the administration , and they would be opposed by a combination of Whigs and Tories who were out of office and who sought to mobilise the independent back-benchers to put pressure on the government . |
| 18 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 19 | I tiptoed to find a sacred vessel to keep your hair in , mouth humming with its knowing:you were here , with me , loving me , kissing me , holding me and could be no closer . |
| 20 | The arrival of the ‘ Extremities , Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions ’ album seemed to provide an apt moment to compile the required discography and , thanks to help from readers John Elliot of Hawick and Mark from Sheffield along with Frank O'Donnell and his valiant cohorts at PolyGram , I 've managed to piece together what would seem to be a complete run-down . |
| 21 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 22 | Did he imagine she 'd made a special attempt to impress him ? |
| 23 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 24 | She 'd persuaded the old folk to eat far later than usual anyway and it was still only five to eight . |
| 25 | In my tycoon days , before the collapse of my second career , I 'd had a fair amount to do with bankers , and my collective memory of them was of thin , precise men , in dark suits and wearing rimless glasses . |
| 26 | ‘ From now on , that charge will be mine , ’ he 'd had the utter nerve to tell her . |
| 27 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 28 | The important British companies , from Korda 's London Films to Goldcrest , have attracted capital at a point where they seemed to understand the economic need to balance Hollywood extravagance with a strong dose of parsimony , but all have ended up committing suicide by spending huge sums of money on attempts to emulate Hollywood . |
| 29 | Even though I 'd found a fine lady to take care of him . |
| 30 | She thought she 'd found the perfect place to live , yet already it was slipping away and this cosy compartment was only a stage on to something else . |