Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [to-vb] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan 's colony of Korea was occupied partly by Russian troops and partly by the US in 1945. prior discussion among the allies had agreed to aim at international trusteeship followed by independence , but superpower interests and conflict between Korean independence groups rendered agreement on unification impossible , and the two sides became increasingly polarized . |
| 2 | I knew both of them very well from my Lincoln days and had agreed to lecture at this school . |
| 3 | It was situated close to the United Nations headquarters as well as being only three blocks away from the African American Institute which Mobuto had requested to see at some point during his visit . |
| 4 | I remembered all kinds of girls whom Harvey had wanted to marry at some time or other . |
| 5 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |