Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite Savimbi 's Nov. 17 commitment , UNITA failed to attend the multiparty talks on Nov. 21 , describing the meeting as a " circus " and citing fears for the security of its officials as the reason for its absence . |
| 2 | Prowling on through the foul open area , wrapped in such pleasant fantasies , I almost failed to see the furtive movement on the edge of my vision . |
| 3 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 4 | On Sept. 28 Lebanese Army troops loyal to Hrawi moved to tighten the economic blockade on Aoun 's stronghold at Baabda in East Beirut . |
| 5 | Clarissa promised to leave the front door on the latch and pointed to the ceiling . |
| 6 | Thinking it meant the arrival of a new doctor , she stopped to read the two names on it . |
| 7 | Grimma 's forehead wrinkled as she tried to read the smaller words on the back . |
| 8 | She ran a finger up the pale blue painted ribbon that was the Rhône , came to the Saône , touched the Côte de Beaune , the Cote de Nuits , bent to read the microscopic legends on the sign-flags , Corton-Charlemagne — Chambolle-Musigny — '; Oh , oh , oh . ’ |
| 9 | Later , while she was crossing the foyer of the hospital , she stopped to admire the colourful blooms on the flower stall just inside the door — carnations , pyrethrums , freesias and anemones . |
| 10 | The two General or World Anti-Slavery Conventions of 1840 and 1843 , held under the aegis of the BFASS in London , tried to influence the British government on some questions of policy . |
| 11 | She tried to visualise the silhouetted figures on Harriet 's blind . |
| 12 | The collision happened as the Greenpeace boat tried to follow the Akatsuki Maru on its voyage back to Japan with 1.7 tons of plutonium loaded in Cherbourg , France , on Saturday . |
| 13 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 14 | This augmentation seemed to give the right behaviour on the texts that SPAR processed . |
| 15 | ‘ It was an amazing first set and winning it gave me a big boost and seemed to have the opposite effect on David , ’ said Corsie later . |
| 16 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 17 | Syria and Lebanon declined to attend the multilateral session on the grounds that Israel had shown no signs of territorial flexibility in the previous rounds of bilateral talks . |
| 18 | If , as I have tried to show , the acquisition of the ego and superego were such important aspects of economic adaptation , first to hunting and then to cultivation , it is clear that the very success of the latter threatened to compromise the psychological foundations on which it was based . |
| 19 | The lower cut must be perfectly flat and angled to match the oblique cut on the rootstock . |
| 20 | I changed over to a lure I 'd bought in Hobart , the aptly named Tasmanian Devil , and I began to get the odd flathead on it and not bad fish either . |
| 21 | It also threatened to upset the substantive agreement on the " cohesion fund " for the benefit of poorer EC member states ; under the May 2 agreement EFTA countries were to contribute ECU 2,000 million , 27 per cent of which was Switzerland 's share . |
| 22 | The new Conservative Government after 1970 decided to accept the Select Committee on Procedure 's recommendations and a Select Committee on Expenditure of forty-nine members ( six subcommittees ) was created in 1971 . |
| 23 | England 's Jamie Spence and David Gilford contrived to lead the British assault on this £62,500 title at the halfway stage , but Montgomerie is now back among the infantry after a second-round 77 that enabled him to beat the halfway cut by just one stroke . |
| 24 | THEY 'VE GOT IT TAPED : After the success of their Rock Passion , which was presented in St Peter 's Church , Hazel Grove , during Holy Grove , during Holy Week , the cast decided to record the entire show on audio tape . |
| 25 | And when we got there we started to pack the small things on the front , the l the luton as we call it over the cab . |
| 26 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 27 | However , progress was made , in co-operation with the EC monitors ' team , on evacuating Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) garrisons from Croatia where they had been blockaded by Croatian forces , as Croatia agreed to lift the remaining blockades on garrisons in Zagreb . |
| 28 | During the Synod of Dort ( 1618–19 ) he was an important intermediary between Samuel Ward ( d. 1643 ) [ q.v. ] , one of the British delegates , and the king , whom he persuaded to moderate the British position on the universality of divine grace . |
| 29 | He even managed to delay the founding declarations on Saturday , despite being whistled and booed from the hall . |
| 30 | We issued a summons and he failed to pay the full sum on time . ’ |