Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You failed to fall in love with me — |
| 2 | Potting up petunias in coco fibre — only gloxinia failed to thrive in coir compost |
| 3 | A government that sought to remain in office after losing a vote of confidence in the House of Commons would find its position politically intenable : it would lack the political authority to govern . |
| 4 | Will the Minister confirm that the office in Newcastle upon Tyne is in the habit of pricing its community care grants in two well-known catalogue shops and that unfortunately it failed to spot in April 1991 that the Government had increased value added tax ? |
| 5 | Two early Christians chanced to meet in Heaven . |
| 6 | He failed to appear in court to face four charges of theft . |
| 7 | Coun Mike J Carr failed to appear in court yesterday on a charge of assaulting Cleveland county councillor John Garvey . |
| 8 | The prosecution sought to adduce in evidence documents which contained statements made by the defendant in the earlier bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 9 | The trainers loved him and some , like Beamish , took it as a mortal insult when he failed to come in person to minister to their valuable charges . |
| 10 | The South Pacific nations agreed to meet in Wellington , New Zealand , in November 1989 , to conclude a convention to ban the use of drift-nets in the entire region . |
| 11 | ISS agreed to provide in return the skill of planning the menus , ordering and preparing the food and , above all , the recruitment and training of the work-force employed in the canteens . |
| 12 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 13 | He owned a firm of barristers in France but moved to work in Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | Henley continues to maintain links with those Management Colleges it helped to establish in Australia , Bangladesh , India , Nepal , New Zealand , Nigeria , Pakistan , Ghana and the Philippines as well as advising colleges in Eastern and Central Europe . |
| 15 | When he moved to stand in front of her , barring her path , she looked down , terrified that he would read her fear on her face . |
| 16 | Only North , according to his notebooks , tried to counter in Tehran with something similar. : ‘ Because I am a Christian , I understand and believe that when one dies in faith he will spend eternity in a far better place . ’ |
| 17 | The analogy was an apt one , for the book helped to set in motion the new movement which came to be known as Dialectical Theology , and whose leading lights , apart from Barth himself , were Brunner , Bultmann and Gogarten . |
| 18 | When 5,000 miners tried to march in protest to the capital last August , troops halted them , the government declared a state of siege and workers ' leaders were arrested under emergency powers . |
| 19 | Knight 's Cross with Oak Leaves , a brilliant soldier , and yet he ruined his career , risked failure , everything , for the sake of some little Jewish bitch he tried to help in Warsaw . |
| 20 | As a result of the ‘ literate mentality ’ that these institutions helped to form in England , and to which Lyons and fellow academics now subscribe , later historians , looking back to records of eleventh century England , tended to discard medallions , seals and other material objects that had been major criteria of validation in the oral culture of that period . |
| 21 | Look , for the sake of argument , we 'll say that however much good you tried to do in society , in fact you 'd never do any good . |
| 22 | We do not understand it , they say , by which they seem to mean that we can not set it out in everyday words ( though actually one can go some way towards doing so , as I tried to do in Chapter V of The particle Play ) . |
| 23 | That night as the lights dimmed across the Clyde valley and the blackout curtains went up , the future of the great city of Glasgow , its children , tried to sleep in faraway beds on the other side of the darkened hills and starless lochs . |
| 24 | Erm , Age Concern have recognized that , and wish to move in that direction , although quite clearly , as far as the existing staff are concerned , in the initial move there were certain erm , reservations and wishes and er , and uncertainties which they tried to address in discussions with us and in this paper . |
| 25 | We promised to keep in touch with her , but asked her not to communicate directly with our new daughter as she grew up , feeling instinctively that a child ca n't cope with having two mothers at once ! |
| 26 | He promised to keep in touch , to send monthly payments if he possibly could . |
| 27 | The editor in chief , from Australia , tried to keep in touch . |
| 28 | This is essentially the same package as the DOS version of Graphics Workshop only it designed to run in windows 3.0 or higher . |
| 29 | At dusk we stopped to refuel in Cook . |
| 30 | A collection of such material should enhance our knowledge of the factors which contributed to change in law and society . |