Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 He felt clear headed enough to tackle the remainder of the long journey north .
2 As our group made a hasty retreat , Bosnia 's Muslim interior minister , Mr Alija Delimustafic , entered the fray , pressing the Yugoslav Army commander over why its forces had not intervened earlier to halt the attack .
3 Among more radical monetarists and free marketeers there remains disappointment that the government had not done more to shift the middle ground .
4 There was a reaction against ( Conservative ) government unpreparedness for war in the 1930s and against those who had not done more to solve the nation 's problems during the Depression .
5 The PAC said that de Klerk had not conceded enough to persuade the movement to bring its exiled cadres home .
6 The US concession to cease production was a major factor , since it had been developing new binary systems but had not produced enough to replace the existing 25,000 tonnes of stocks .
7 Shopping , in Canada , had largely gone underground to defeat the climate .
8 He looked shifty , and the painter had n't known enough to disguise the bulge under his jacket which made his chain of office lie uneven .
9 A fifth IAEA team which had arrived on Sept. 15 had reportedly attempted also to establish the extent of Iraq 's centrifuge programme revealed by an IAEA inspection team in August [ see p. 38407 ] .
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