Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 2 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 3 | Aimar promised to give no more help to his half-brothers of Angoulême and handed over his first — and third-born sons as hostages . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 5 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 6 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 7 | He promised to lend no more support to his half-brothers in Angoulême . |
| 8 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 9 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 10 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 11 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 12 | The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start . |
| 13 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 14 | She had always wanted an animal of her own , and so she began to feel a little interest in Dickon . |
| 15 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 16 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 17 | And I said to our Joe we got to get a another lock for that door . |
| 18 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 19 | In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ . |
| 20 | Each Holy Roman Emperor , the supreme example of an elected monarch , had to accept the same kind of limitations when he was chosen by the imperial electors . |
| 21 | He noght forgat to yeve the leeste page In al that hous … |
| 22 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 23 | When the Minister met the nine regional chairmen last week they regarded his statement that he sought to achieve no more funding for sport in this country — Wales received 8.5 per cent. , Scotland 15 per cent . |
| 24 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 25 | He had already become dependent on Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] for funds ( a loan of £10,000 in 1788 ) but the prosperity of muslins now evaporated , while Oldknow failed to achieve the same mastery of technical perfection in fine-cotton spinning . |
| 26 | At the root of the problem , according to one European civil servant , was the fact that : " The poor countries wanted a lot of money with no strings attached , while the rich ones wanted to give a little money with lots of strings . " |
| 27 | We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday . |
| 28 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |