Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the two parties failed to come to any agreement over plans for the construction of autoroute A16 , linking Boulogne with Amiens . |
| 2 | Haydon failed to come to any agreement with his creditors . |
| 3 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 4 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 5 | Did this fragmentation of your original family leave a longing which you then tried to appease in any way through literature ? |
| 6 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 7 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 8 | ‘ I really came to search for some things for my collection . ’ |
| 9 | They were arrested as they prepared to go to another rave in Ashington . |
| 10 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | It seemed to come from another world of reference , an older , ordinary world , of platitude and cliché , of pattern and familiar family ties , a world that she had thought they had never entered , for many good reasons never entered : and now here was Charles himself , invoking its terms , as though it had been there always , as though they had always inhabited its domain . |
| 12 | It has been said that at the court of Poitiers " the gilded youth of Poitou and Aquitaine breathed an air that seemed to belong to some tale of chivalry " . |
| 13 | May I draw to the attention of the Secretary of State the case of a Wakefield man who was refused expensive injections for infertility by a fund-holding GP and told to apply for that treatment to a non fund-holding practice in Wakefield ? |
| 14 | It was some time before the police learnt to react to these invasions by stealing the skins ' bootlaces and in some cases their braces . |
| 15 | Just how Marc Jeffrey came to die in this barn at Slade Farm near Stroud , will probably never be know . |
| 16 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 17 | Huge numbers of immigrants , mostly from across the Atlantic , came to live in this country of over 7.7 million square kilometres . |
| 18 | The world of the Zoo seemed to move without any noise at all and around the Cages all was still but for the visitor Creggan had attacked , who swayed back and forth where he sat on the ground , others gathered around him . |
| 19 | Mr Erlich , no one came to ask in that village for eyewitnesses … ’ |
| 20 | He seemed to speak with some feeling after his climb . |
| 21 | He seemed to cater for all tastes in his selections . |
| 22 | He pledged to work for all sides in the constituency . |
| 23 | the recognition that an incapacitated person should be allowed and encouraged to participate in any decision-making to the fullest possible extent . |
| 24 | The flow pattern , and allowed to run for many years of simulated time , generating a sequence of day-to-day ‘ weather ’ , |
| 25 | It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils . |
| 26 | Twelve rocks , well rounded from previous use , began to mount above each other in a crazy mushroom shape . |
| 27 | Their use increased considerably from the 1880s when the familiar skeletal iron-framed hay barn with a curved corrugated-iron roof began to appear in all parts of the country . |
| 28 | the more I worked on it the more it began to evolve into another kind of idea and the more removed it became from my initial study which had so much freedom and energy , so I stopped . |
| 29 | Locally , people began to talk about some form of recognition for the aircraft and how the town could help its tourist industry into the bargain . |
| 30 | She began to fiddle with some clothes from an open machine , dropping pairs of briefs and socks on to the floor . |