Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mozart spent part of the autumn of 1790 in Frankfurt , but failed to attract the financial success he desperately needed . |
| 2 | As already stressed , the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement and , its mentor , the Communist Party of Great Britain , failed to find the revolutionary spirit which they felt was being dampened and re-channelled by the Labour Party . |
| 3 | The 24-year-old local hero failed to find the superb form which saw him win the French Indoor Championships , as he lost his first match to Pete Sampras , 7–6 ( 7–5 ) , 7–6 ( 7–3 ) . |
| 4 | Certainly I always tried to remember the shocking effect which the sight of so many old prisoners , some of them bearded , all of them strangely dressed , had had on me the first time I arrived in a main camp . |
| 5 | Topaz stamped her foot , beside herself with fury as she tried to defend the dead woman whose legacy she had to bear . |
| 6 | In spite of the difficulties caused by the weather , Carrie produced a meal of baked rabbit , potatoes , swede and carrots and put it in front of Seb while the wind rattled the door and windows and an occasional gust seemed to shake the very house itself . |
| 7 | Below the streets were alive with people , all of them bathed in the neon glow that seemed to fill the very air itself with multi-coloured energy . |
| 8 | At first Diana tolerated the friendship , but soon came to envy the older woman whose company her husband so plainly enjoyed . |
| 9 | It was immediately assumed that Robson , who had missed England 's 0-0 draw in Sweden last month because of bruised ribs , would again be absent when his country strove to acquire the further point they need in Poland to ensure qualification for the World Cup finals next summer . |
| 10 | As she turned to serve the impatient customer she added : ‘ I 've been in palaces and kings ' houses , Mr Stone . |
| 11 | The DTI today pledged to dump the existing system which produces an injury total 100 times less than council statistics around 800 against 80,000 a year . |
| 12 | While she claimed to have the upper hand he might well explain much . |
| 13 | I enjoyed my politico-legal activities and sought to give the best service I could . |
| 14 | BOB MARLEY 'S eldest daughter , Cedella , never got to do the one thing she always desperately wanted — join her late father on tour . |
| 15 | Two made minor changes which , while forestalling the possibility of an exact repetition of the offence in question , failed to rectify the general weakness which the offence had uncovered . |
| 16 | Her nimble fingers began to caress the wrinkled pouch which was his scrotum , and to fondle the two unequal balls which were his testicles ; while her soft lips slid erotically down his shaft taking more and more of his quickly swelling cock into her sweet mouth . |
| 17 | So I began to visit the civil hospital which had been taken over by the military for wounded and sick men from the British forces further south . |
| 18 | They came to the ‘ eye ’ of this storm , below a sullen , winter sky , and at once Tallis began to recognize the deep canyon which she had hollowed those days before , with Morthen . |
| 19 | A few more boys arrived and I began to realise the terrible blunder I had made . |
| 20 | The tall , blond player who had joined West Ham at the tender of age of 17 some four years earlier , had done more than choose the right moment to emerge , he 'd nicely anticipated the coming of the right man , Alf Ramsey , who took over the England management shortly afterwards and began to forge the national side which would win the World Cup in 1966 and in which Moore would play an anchor role . |
| 21 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 22 | The argument started when Mr Minashi decided to landscape the 16th green which backs onto the Molloys ' £200,000 17th century cottage . |
| 23 | The other one was only four foot wide because of course she needed to collect the whole lot you see , and then the next one was three foot wide . |
| 24 | On 24 July the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress went to see the Prime Minister who said , according to The Times , that he would not intervene . |
| 25 | Moore then went to see the old servant whom Mr Carnford had recommended to him . |
| 26 | Obviously John managed to hide the hard work he had put into unravelling the ‘ hideous complications ’ he found in it . |
| 27 | Despite his human limitations he managed to retrieve the underwater thorn which would give immortality , although it was stolen from him on his journey back to Uruk by a serpent . |
| 28 | She managed to conceal the physical revulsion she always felt from close contact with this man . |
| 29 | Both Kiki Smith and Cindy Sherman chose to depict the effective violence which the body of a woman suffers under the male gaze . |
| 30 | Kevin looked at the policeman as he leaned to accept the proffered match which he was shielding with his fingers . |