Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 2 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 3 | Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks . |
| 4 | Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court . |
| 5 | A standard form of agreement is set out in Appendix I. The essential elements of a confidentiality agreement are an acknowledgment by the purchaser that : ( a ) the existence of the negotiations and all information received relating to the vendor 's business is confidential ; ( b ) the purchaser will maintain the confidentiality and ensure that all persons receiving the information maintain the confidentiality ; ( c ) the purchaser will only use information for assessing its acquisition of the business and for no other purpose ; ( d ) the purchaser will return all the information and either return or destroy all copies if the transaction does not complete . |
| 6 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
| 7 | The men 's eyes automatically swivelled left to the women 's section at a tasteful thirty yards ' distance . |
| 8 | Often it is only when their disposal did not go as planned that their existence or the fact that they once existed comes to the historian 's attention . |
| 9 | I decided to write to the Grocers ' Company about the matter . |
| 10 | I had watched the small group of sewing machinists with whom I worked respond to the management 's introduction of a change in their job routine . |
| 11 | Yet by no means everything went according to the management 's plans . |
| 12 | His first port of call after coming on board was to insure RDI 's financing which meant going to the company 's strategic partner , the Korean firm $380m-a-year TriGem Computer Corp . |
| 13 | The smallest region defined that retains sequence-specific DNA-binding activity contains DP-1 protein sequence from amino-acid residue 84 to 204 ( DP-1 84-204 ; Fig. 4 b , compare tracks 4 and 5 ) ; in the same conditions , an unrelated sequence-specific transcription factor , GATA-1 ( ref. 30 ) , failed to bind to the wild-type E2F site ( Fig. 4 b ; compare tracks 8 , 9 and 10 , 11 ) . |
| 14 | In a referendum on April 22 inhabitants of Karl-Marx-Stadt voted to revert to the town 's former name of Chemnitz . |
| 15 | When the signal for launching crusade finally did come to the Fists ' astropaths , Battle Brothers would depart in warpships from the jutting sword-deck — to return , perhaps years later in realspace time , as heroes … and some as cripples needing reconstruction by the experts in the Apothacarion … and others as honoured corpses , or perhaps only in the form of retrieved progenoid glands from which new Marines would be kindled . |
| 16 | For reasons which are both obscure and immaterial , there was considerable delay in this report coming to the attention of the local authority having the care of J. When in January 1992 it did come to the authority 's notice , Dr. I. was asked to provide a further up to date report and in addition the authority obtained a second opinion from Dr. R. , a consultant paediatric neurologist with a London teaching hospital . |
| 17 | Surrey , set a target of 241 to win in 47 overs , slumped to 69 for three before the weather put paid to the visitors ' hopes . |
| 18 | a legendary monster said to have been born to a wealthy lady who had referred to a beggar 's child as a nasty pig . |
| 19 | A statement in early September 1989 by the National Assembly Speaker , Saadi Medhi Saleh , had referred to the regime 's commitment to a multiparty system , although decisions regarding the political forces which would be permitted to take part in it would be left to the " near future " . |
| 20 | ln that time , the sixty men had adjusted to the soldiers ' normal routine of work at night and lie-up during the day . |
| 21 | According to earlier reports Malakal had fallen to the SPLA 's Nasir faction loyal to Riek Nachar and a rival of the SPLA 's Torit faction loyal to Col. John Garang , displacing an estimated 180,000 people . |
| 22 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 23 | He had come to the comrades ' attention when he wrote an article in the journal of the Right-On wing of the Communist Party , Marxism Today , shortly before the £750 GLC pre-feasibility study was completed in November 1984 . |
| 24 | In 1933 it first appeared in its present format , accompanied by the slim one-volume Supplement which added quotations , words , and meanings that had come to the editors ' attention after the publication of the relevant part of the Dictionary . |
| 25 | When she arrived at the theatre that night she saw a note pinned up at the stage door stating that it had come to the management 's notice that a Girl had been flying , which was forbidden ! |
| 26 | Urquhart had come to the Nowaks ' house , Blanche thought , for the same purpose as her — an illegal search for clues about Marek 's past activities . |
| 27 | In response to the Indian claim that the Indian chief who signed the treaty was not a representative of the Temagami , the court judged that the Indians had adhered to the treaty 's terms by accepting annual federal payments and a reservation . |
| 28 | And it would amuse the Colonel to hear what he had done to the President 's elite guard . |
| 29 | ‘ Then , at the end of the reception , Larry came over to me and asked what I had said to the bride 's father . |
| 30 | Participants were asked to write a letter to themselves as if from an imaginary — or real — ex-pupil , expressing their appreciation for the contribution that they , the teachers , had made to the pupil 's life . |