Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 2 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 3 | These included raising the age of consent to eighteen , abolishing the notorious ‘ escape clause ’ ( allowing male defendants in assault cases to claim they believed the girl to be over sixteen ) , extending the time limit for prosecutions and criminalizing incest and male importuning . |
| 4 | But Richard Walker had other ideas , with just two minutes to go he coughed up . |
| 5 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 6 | People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks . |
| 7 | Attempts to revive him failed and he was dead on arrival at hospital . |
| 8 | Attempts to revive him failed and he died later in hospital . |
| 9 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 10 | Forcing his useless legs to work he made his way to the bridge , awkwardly at first , hobbling , as if in some grotesque mimicry of his wife , then with more confidence as the blood began to flow , his muscles come alive again . |
| 11 | Having had to resort to asking passers-by to pull it closed for me , I was worried that one day I would n't be able to get in . |
| 12 | The rules and routines of the institution made her feel secure and offered her plentiful opportunities to do what gave her the most satisfaction , to comply . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll have no problem at all filling in a couple of hours with all the Princes Street shops to keep you occupied . |
| 14 | There is a strong incentive for local Labour parties to get everyone registered , even in safe urban seats , to avoid the seat disappearing altogether . |
| 15 | In other words to break his deemed domicile a person leaving the United Kingdom must be outside of the United Kingdom for three years counting three lots of 12 months from the time he left the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 17 | The ability of Philip Augustus and his immediate successors to translate what had for long been no more than theoretical claims into judicial , and sometimes geographical , reality changed the balance of forces . |
| 18 | The facts must show , however , that whether A or B committed the final act , the other must have assisted , encouraged or , at least , failed to take necessary steps to prevent what happened . |
| 19 | So thick had the mist become that he had almost lost his way and hoping to hear the call of one of the animals to orientate himself had heard an eagle 's call and one he knew well . |
| 20 | Keegan knew his side would face Barnsley 's stifling three-man central-defensive formation , yet the attempts to counter it bordered on the banal . |
| 21 | ‘ I am responsible , ’ she thought as they sat in the train and Victoria pulled up seat cushions to see what lay beneath them and Jonathon studied a diagram of the rigging on a schooner . |
| 22 | I did n't want my parents to know I had a boyfriend : they would not have approved because they would have felt I was too young . |
| 23 | But whenever Angus and his daughter went out in the boat fishing for their lives to keep themselves fed , it seemed that a seal swam in front of the boat and lead them towards the places where the fishes were thickest in the sea in that part of the coast . |
| 24 | It 's just I , I was sitting here , have n't phoned my parents to say I got back here alright . |
| 25 | Six months before her husband died in April 1803 , she had a letter from Coutts her bankers to say she had outstanding bills for £700 but her current account balance stood at 12s 11d . |
| 26 | As abolitionist ambitions widened in geographical scope the ability of reformers to effect them declined in respect both to an informed public opinion able to be mobilised and on finding policies which could bring results through the use of practical methods . |
| 27 | If the burden was placed on the parents to prove they did not do the deed , their failure to convince the jury of this would result in their conviction . |
| 28 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 29 | VOLUNTEERS who sang to a sick dolphin for 36 hours to calm it returned the mammal to the sea at Gwithian , Cornwall , yesterday . |
| 30 | I have visited Southampton within the past few days to see what had become of one of the subsidiaries there Hampshire Bus . |