Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 22 , West Germany agreed to restructure over a 14-year period a debt of DM3,000 million due for payment by March 1991 . |
| 2 | Then in June 1967 , Romania failed to break off diplomatic relations with Israel after the outbreak of the Six Day War . |
| 3 | Characteristically Morse sought to swallow back the bitter-tasting fluid that had risen in his gorge ; and the surgeon , with understanding , pulled the rubber sheet over the head again . |
| 4 | The withdrawal of these pioneers from the scene need not have been bad news for the industry ; few American production outfits made the transition to new times and Méliès failed to keep up in France . |
| 5 | Analysts are forecasting that Zeneca will make taxable profits of about £500 million in the current year , with ICI expected to come in at around £250 million . |
| 6 | Under an agreement signed on Sept. 24 Romania agreed to accept back all Romanians who were living illegally in Germany in return for DM30,000,000 in reintegration aid . |
| 7 | The entire plan violated every principle upon which the SAS had been founded , yet Stirling agreed to go along with it . |
| 8 | As part of the deal Mr de Ferranti agreed to stand down in favour of Sir Derek and to allow James Guerin , International Signal 's founder , to come on to the board as deputy chairman . |
| 9 | Farag tried to look over his shoulder . |
| 10 | While her hands were busy rooting the ingredients out of their packs , Jezrael tried to work out just how she did feel about the Magyar , but that was a niggling discomfort blunted by the stone weight of her worry about Chesarynth — and about Antoine . |
| 11 | There were alternative scenarios : the killer , an outsider , was still with his victim when Gerald tried to get in but , by the time the woman arrived , he had left . |
| 12 | The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week . |
| 13 | Luce tried to think back , but so much had happened . |
| 14 | Harry Taylor tried to climb down earlier today but his condition forced him to turn back . |
| 15 | Below , in the kitchen , William whined to go out , a gentle , quivering , undemanding sound that meant , nevertheless , a fairly urgent need . |
| 16 | Liverpool will probably want around £750,000 for the player who Tranmere tried to take on loan earlier this season . |
| 17 | After I 'd explained the problems , Mazzin tried to wriggle out of it by going on about blindfolds . |
| 18 | For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions , with little success . |
| 19 | More than 1,600 names — the people whose personal wealth is pledged to meeting insurance claims — lost money when they found themselves having to meet huge bills for asbestosis and pollution claims after Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the risks from other Lloyd 's syndicates in 1982 . |
| 20 | The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks , the dangers of asbestosis were already known : a Lloyd 's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue . |
| 21 | There is no reason to suppose that the average Victorian member of the middle class , lower middle class or ‘ respectable ’ working class in , say , Victorian England and the United States failed to live up to his or her standards of sexual morality . |
| 22 | Christie was to be married at Easter , but Ann planned to go over in late February to help with the wedding preparations and also , to take Sarah and see her settled in before she started her job . |
| 23 | Rangers keeper Tony Roberts failed to hold on to a corner from Alfons Groenendijk . |
| 24 | SCRIPTWRITER David Yallop planned to pep up EastEnders by killing off Pete Beale with an IRA bomb . |
| 25 | At a concert in Ilfracombe , Devon , both Solowka and Gregory failed to turn up and Sara Catt , Charman 's girlfriend , learned the bass parts as they travelled to the town . |
| 26 | I dined with Roger [ Hinks ] when Joyce Cary failed to turn up — his aeroplane crashed and , soaked in kerosene I believe , he gallantly leapt into the next . |
| 27 | And if Jardines sought to sell out of Hongkong Land , it would be better placed to demand a hefty premium for offering effective control without the need to buy out smaller shareholders . |
| 28 | When Donna failed to turn up , he left , drove to a telephone box and played the message down the line . |
| 29 | The alarm was raised by a cook who arrived for work as normal but Mrs Johnstone failed to open up for lunch-time business . |
| 30 | A number of borough councils agreed to appoint workers with specific lesbian and gay responsibilities and , after long periods of consultation , Camden and Haringey agreed to set up their own lesbian and gay units . |