Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He failed conspicuously to do so and continues to side-step any commitment to taking the effective steps which many senior military experts believe could at least limit the damage , by calling from time to time for a mere tightening of sanctions against Serbia . |
| 2 | One of their employees , a store manager , failed properly to carry out the system with the result that Radiant washing powder was advertised in the window at 2s. 11d. when in fact the only packets available in the shop were 3s. 11d. ( section 11(d) the Trade Descriptions Act which made this an offence has since been repealed and replaced by Part III of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , see paragraph 16–28 below ) . |
| 3 | He recovered sufficiently to carry on racing — although the car required rewelding ! |
| 4 | She did not think them greater , failed entirely to see why she should . |
| 5 | Her heart going like a trip-hammer , Fabia fought valiantly to hold down panic . |
| 6 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 7 | While he was talking to her , Melissa took the twins out of the pushchair and began to carry them around the store , one balanced on each hip , until she found somewhere to sit down . |
| 8 | While Zen waited for his driver to arrive , his hosts tried politely to find out who he was and what he 'd been doing , but he remained deliberately vague . |
| 9 | Note that the killer was a Euro-convertible , brilliantly conceived by the company 's advisers : it proved as fatal as another financiers ' wheeze , the repurchase of 40% of IBC , which helped greatly to destroy virtually the entire value of that company 's equity . |
| 10 | Detectives praised the help they received from the public , saying the artist 's impression of Katherine 's attacker helped greatly to bring about a conviction . |
| 11 | And Serena — glamour girl of Fiat Uno adverts — tried best to gloss over her partner 's scruffy appearance at their first photo-call . |
| 12 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |
| 13 | She retched and failed , squeezed , tried again , tried desperately to choke out the stodge that blocked her . |
| 14 | Germany 's Seizinger , narrow leader in the battle for the World Cup overall title , fell on the second leg of a giant slalom in Are , Sweden as she tried desperately to make up for lost time . |
| 15 | ‘ We tried desperately to get out of the format of landing somewhere , splitting up , getting lost and getting captured , getting into trouble and getting out of it . |
| 16 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 17 | The Magyars were a nomad people of the steppes , claiming kinship with those Huns who briefly occupied the Danubian basin in the fifth century and who helped finally to bring down the edifice of Roman power in the West . |
| 18 | He moved quickly to cut short any illusions that they might have about possessing an independent authority or having de Gaulle in their debt . |
| 19 | She tried repeatedly to bring up the subject of her rapidly-disintegrating marriage . |
| 20 | Those paralysed by panic , or who tried insanely to drag out the guns , were drowned . |
| 21 | He tried unsuccessfully to sniff back the tears as he watched Yanto race back towards the docks . |
| 22 | Sammy scampered leisurely in front of him while he stopped intermittently to pick up sweet chestnuts on the way . |
| 23 | Although he tried hard to do so , Richard could never see how anyone could live without things in working order . |
| 24 | Sandison tried hard to remember how much he had given the girl . |
| 25 | Starting in 1967 , we tried hard to whip up interest in the robots among potential customers , but with little success . |
| 26 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 27 | Banbridge tried hard to get back into the game but Dungannon stuck again in the 75th minute when Denver beat Hanley with a neat lob to complete his hat-trick . |
| 28 | The RCM tried hard to play down the issue , arguing that all those working for refugees would achieve most if they cooperated . |
| 29 | Early on , the RCM tried hard to play down differences with policy statements which leaned some way towards orthodoxy without limiting the freedom of the RCM to act in what it regarded as the best interests of individual children . |
| 30 | Despite losing so heavily , Edinburgh tried hard to play enterprisingly and in scrum-half Crombie , possess a player with the ability to perform at the highest level . |