Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 2 | Most of the journalists expected to see children near the line . |
| 3 | Darlington council yesterday agreed to demolish sheds at the motive diesel works east of Melland Street and landscape the site as part of the Railside Revival scheme . |
| 4 | It is a matter of deep regret that the Department of Social Security failed to provide copies of the instruments in time for the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments to consider them and report to the House . |
| 5 | They saw the sense of the plan and agreed to find refuges for the boys in the thick forest between Bolfracks and Kenmore . |
| 6 | As this severely restricted the scope of what the agencies had been directed to search for , Shaughnessy felt confirmed in his suspicions that the government had something to hide and sought to obtain depositions from the officials who had signed the declarations . |
| 7 | However , in Re Cadbury Schweppes Ltd 's Agreement [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 307 a parent company and a subsidiary were not treated as a single person where two companies agreed to accept restrictions on the supply of goods to a third which was a subsidiary of one of them . |
| 8 | This is the man behind it all , Ralph Reader , a successful composer in the thirties who agreed to write songs for the scouts to perform and his material is still used today . |
| 9 | I tried to arrange guides on the drum sander but quickly gave up . |
| 10 | Between 1313 and 1322 , with the help of Archbishop Reynolds , Edward II tried to extract grants from the clergy by means of their parliamentary proctors , but so obstinate were their objections and so counter-productive , politically as well as financially , were these attempts that by 1322 the king was content to seek subsidies through clerical assemblies and not parliament . |
| 11 | In doing so they helped to create resentments against the Masai in the minds of those who came to power in the post-colonial state . |
| 12 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |
| 13 | After her Essex Ladies team-mate Jenny Stoute had rushed on the track to embrace her , Gunnell then embarked on one of the slowest laps of honour imaginable as , draped in the Union Jack given to her by the crowd , she stopped to receive hugs from the fans . |
| 14 | It was not only the tradesmen and merchants but the Lord Chancellor who opposed any bill which tried to remedy defects in the Lords ' Act . |
| 15 | I promised to buy shares in the brewery to make up for it . |
| 16 | Bamrung Boonpanya , who helped to organise protests against the pollution of the Nam Siew river , says that trying to get the police to enforce the law was ‘ like running after rats ’ . |
| 17 | He rose to give thanks for the thanks . |
| 18 | We tried to give examples of the ways we could try to direct finance to help these sort of things happen . |
| 19 | The Soviet Union , for its part , tried to build relationships within the region in the hope that it could displace the Western powers on the tide of Arab nationalism . |
| 20 | They were never importunate , never servile ; they never tried to lure Europeans into the kind of patron-client relationship which is often assumed to be vital to the functioning of the colonial psyche but which many Englishmen in fact found more annoying than gratifying . |
| 21 | We tried to get witnesses for the defence , but they ail confirmed that he had killed the DO on purpose . |
| 22 | Sectional groups like the Fascist Union of British Workers tried to organize strikes at the Firestone works in Brentford and on Birmingham buses . |
| 23 | As my turn approached and the queue thinned , I was afforded an occasional glimpse of the Smiths as they moved to collect purchases from the shelves behind them . |
| 24 | He gave Ranulf a brief description of what had happened but his servant , with a keen sense of survival , immediately tried to link events to the men who had attempted to attack them on the road from Leith . |
| 25 | It tried to introduce laws against the trades unions . |
| 26 | The ministers approved a budget of 192,000,000 ECU for the period to 1992 , more than double the award for the expiring two-year phase ; they also agreed to open talks with the EFTA members with a view to extending the scheme . |
| 27 | Russia 's acting Premier Yegor Gaidar and Moldovan Prime Minister Andrei Sangheli [ for his appointment on July 1 see p. 38976 ] agreed to open negotiations over the removal of Russian troops stationed in the republic . |
| 28 | Oh oh oh not really , but it was when this chanting came in that the young fellas seemed to like gangs in the crowd and this when all the trouble started |
| 29 | The latest round of negotiations with the government over Kurdish autonomy [ see pp. 38126 ; 38211 ; 38308 ] ended on Aug. 20 with apparent agreement on a draft settlement , believed to include provisions for the resettlement of Kurdish refugees and the creation of a Kurdish executive and legislative council for the autonomous region . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Dr Mortimer , ‘ Laura married a painter called Lyons who came to paint pictures of the moor . |