Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , district councillors felt that none of the objections justified any changes to the proposed order and agreed to go ahead with the scheme . |
| 2 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 3 | The negotiators agreed to meet again before the end of November , and although no date was arranged for the holding of full normalization talks , it was suggested that these might begin before the end of 1990 . |
| 4 | Senior Ukraine officials held heated talks in Sevastopol yesterday with fleet leaders and agreed to meet again in the future . |
| 5 | It may therefore be proposed that BRAC 's programme failed to communicate properly with the practitioners and consequently alienated them with regard to the concept of the lobon-gur mixture . |
| 6 | The therapist also suggested that Pamela should tell her parents more about what she was doing ; for example , what time she planned to come home in the evening . |
| 7 | ‘ I bet you never thought you 'd end up as a social accessory whenever you agreed to come here for a holiday ! |
| 8 | The recession , which we expected to fade away through the year , has hit us full on , and as I write there is little sign of light at the end of the proverbial tunnel . |
| 9 | He tried to sit casually on the edge of his desk , farted loudly and stood up again . |
| 10 | These had probably been caused as Trixie tried to pull away from the heater . |
| 11 | In particular , it promised to look again at the case of Canford Heath in Dorset , where a recent court judgement upheld the decision by Poole Borough Council to build houses on the heath in the face of vociferous opposition from conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature [ see ED no . |
| 12 | In his first meeting with the TUC General Council in January 1942 , Beveridge rejected their suggestion for a retirement condition , saying ‘ I do not believe the old people leaving the labour market really create fresh employment ’ , but he promised to look further into the matter . |
| 13 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 14 | Francis hugged Elaine and tried to shrink further into the shadows beneath the screens . |
| 15 | Gorbachev , in his response to the results , nonetheless claimed that they had received a mandate for the ‘ renewal and strengthening of the union state ’ and promised to press ahead with the conclusion of the union treaty and a new constitution . |
| 16 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 17 | She in turn tried to get away from the bird , but was so firmly strapped into the chair that she was unable to move . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 19 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 20 | ‘ So far comments from Com Tech and MUA suggest that SCO will still be sold by both companies , but neither tried to shy away from the fact that their decisions will hurt SCO . |
| 21 | It would be naive to expect every fragment surveyed to fall neatly into a pattern in which terraces occurred at certain heights and were completely absent from the other heights . |
| 22 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 23 | It was one of those days when snow fell all day without sticking and the cold seemed to penetrate right to the bone . |
| 24 | The bang of the younger one 's heart seemed to go right through the earth like thundering horses . |
| 25 | He was beginning to find pieces which seemed to go together with the hint of a pattern … |
| 26 | the rocket was projected up to a considerable height and directed to fall somewhere in the London area . |
| 27 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 28 | Was there a lot of people who came to work here in the fishing town . |
| 29 | Several times on my pilgrimage through Biomorph Land I seemed to come close to a precursor of my insects , but , then , in spite of my best efforts as a selecting agent , evolution went off on what proved to be a false trail . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the cost of providing an economic infrastructure was one which seemed to bear heavily upon the people and , as far as the rural communities were concerned , it may be argued that the French occupation brought little positive benefits . |