Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " 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 | Two early Christians chanced to meet in Heaven . |
| 5 | He failed to appear in court to face four charges of theft . |
| 6 | Coun Mike J Carr failed to appear in court yesterday on a charge of assaulting Cleveland county councillor John Garvey . |
| 7 | The prosecution sought to adduce in evidence documents which contained statements made by the defendant in the earlier bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ! |
| 18 | He promised to keep in touch , to send monthly payments if he possibly could . |
| 19 | The editor in chief , from Australia , tried to keep in touch . |
| 20 | A collection of such material should enhance our knowledge of the factors which contributed to change in law and society . |
| 21 | I lay there and I heard this zip go z-z-zip up , god someone 's coming in tent , tried to get in bed with us . |
| 22 | AIAS [ Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies ] tried to get in touch with Gould and his publishers to ask them to withdraw the book from sale , or at least remove this photo . |
| 23 | With tears pouring down her face , British Airways hostess Gillian Conway promised to stay in touch with eight-year-old Christopher Baldwick , a muscular dystrophy sufferer from Eaglesfield in Scotland . |
| 24 | In a sibilant , fluttering voice he read his reply from the throne in Annamese , but his delivery , unlike the Frenchman 's , was hesitant and nervous and once or twice he stopped to swallow in mid-sentence . |
| 25 | The duty officer promised to get in touch but nothing happened for two days . |
| 26 | Summoning up all my courage , I entered San Esteban and its overpowering gilded Churriguera altar seemed to welcome me like a long-lost friend as I dipped my hand in the holy-water stoup at the door and knelt to pray in front of Claudio Coello 's heavenly blue painting . |
| 27 | One day last October , as a Conservative politician , Alberto Dahik , rose to speak in Congress , a rival congressman launched a heavy glass ashtray across the chamber and hit him on the head . |
| 28 | I tried to show in chapter 4 that such events may have happened , on a geological time scale , very quickly indeed . |
| 29 | ‘ Even as a little kid I used to gaze in motorcycle shop windows and wish I had something like this , ’ says hell for leather Jackie , from Marske near Redcar . |
| 30 | The " Group of Nine " plus Malta , which was included as an observer , agreed to set in motion a mechanism for co-operation involving annual ministerial meetings — the first scheduled for 1991 in Algiers — and collaborative ventures on multilateral financial institutions , self-sufficiency in food , migration , debt and the protection of cultural heritage , and collaborative action against desertification . |