Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [to-vb] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 2 | Terry hated having to make these tapes and we knew how distressing it was for him . |
| 3 | ‘ Allison kept wanting to put these fiddly little bits in and ideas that we all thought were naff , ’ says Charman . |
| 4 | ‘ I can reveal that all the rivalry is just showbiz — we did decide to have these two rival team captains . ’ |
| 5 | The 1962 Hospital Plan ( MoH , 1962 ) and the 1971 Formula ( DHSS , 1970 ) did attempt to reduce these inequalities at the regional level , but the evidence indicated that inequalities within regions exceeded those between regions ( Cooper and Culyer , 1970 ) . |
| 6 | For the present , it may simply be observed that Szekeres and Sbytov had omitted to include these cases . |
| 7 | By 1990 Baghdad had come to perceive these calculations as imperilled by two GCC states , Kuwait and the UAE . |
| 8 | Some rather fanciful Darwinian speculation had helped to inform these developments , as when Karl Pearson had brooded over the damaging evolutionary processes at work in National Life and Character : A Forecast ( 1894 ) where he had identified the growth of towns , the reliance on standing armies which would induce mechanical habits , the decline of individualism , family feeling and national pride as the emerging contours of the future . |
| 9 | When I last wrote to you in January I mentioned that I hoped to be relieved of the secretarial duties of the B.A.E.C. by another member who had volunteered to take these over . |
| 10 | The Guam law had been struck down by lower courts and the Supreme Court had refused to review these rulings . |
| 11 | And we had to run to take these chickens |
| 12 | Prior to the agreement on the SEA , the EC had attempted to eliminate these NTBs by creating a set of European laws and regulations to govern all aspects of economic activity . |
| 13 | I had wanted to help these people and their King . |
| 14 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 15 | They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell . |
| 16 | I had learnt to love these good people and I could not wait another day to introduce myself . |
| 17 | What is clear is that the Prison Service had failed to persuade these prisoners that it was treating them fairly ’ ( para 9.25 ) . |
| 18 | Brazil had failed to meet these targets in the first two quarters of the year , but the Franco government would continue with efforts to renegotiate them , since it was dependent on IMF support to secure acceptance of the debt accord agreed in outline with commercial creditor banks in July [ see p. 39002 ] . |