Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He planned to catch the 6 pm flight back to Munich . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , and irrespective of the debate on the degree of influence of annual weather variations on long-term ozone trends , the fact that 101 areas in the country failed to meet the 0.12 ppm ozone standard in 1988 is extremely worrying . |
| 3 | The pilots on Oct. 4 withdrew their pay claim and agreed to accept the 6 per cent national guideline agreed by the government and the trade unions , but the airlines refused to respond while the matter was before the arbitration commission . |
| 4 | Thus , when in November 1947 a resolution was put to the United Nations General Assembly ( UNGA ) Committee for Political and Security Questions , calling for a reaffirmation of the December 1946 resolution , it failed to secure the two-thirds majority required for adoption . |
| 5 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 6 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 7 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |
| 8 | The Peruvian military reacted with force during the Pamplona invasion in May 1971 , when they tried to evict the tens of thousands who had participated in this huge squatter invasion in Lima , with the result that there were several injuries and one death ( Collier 1975 ) . |
| 9 | She promised to attend the 1992 ceremony . |
| 10 | I was told to stay where I was while slowly , slowly with delicate patience , the young son tried to inch the two embedded wheels out of the stuff . |
| 11 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters said it tried to kill the three Roman Catholic taxi drivers . |
| 12 | The many coats of paint helped to preserve the P-40 ready for the day when she would fly again . |
| 13 | The discussion process has been overseen by Howell James , director of corporate affairs , who as an adviser to Lord Young helped to write the 1987 Conservative manifesto . |
| 14 | From 1924 to 1930 , Dr Clarke maintains , he was mainly concerned with politics and policy , and tried to coordinate the two in a pincer movement on the Treasury . |
| 15 | Thinking it meant the arrival of a new doctor , she stopped to read the two names on it . |
| 16 | The centre of the fighting was the headquarters of the Hasidic Lubavitcher sect where blacks and Jews exchanges volleys of bricks and bottles , whilst police in riot gear tried to keep the two groups separated . |
| 17 | Apart from Brooke , an obscure little house , all that survived of the medieval foundations of Rutland was the hospital , or almshouse , at Oakham , which only had goods worth 40s. : clearly its income of 20 marks only just sufficed to maintain the twelve poor inmates : Warden Gunby was no Septimus Harding . |
| 18 | On his way to the harvest supper Gabriel stopped to check the eight huge hay- and wheat-ricks . |
| 19 | She helped to get the 90 workers reinstated that year . |
| 20 | They stood watching him as he tried to manoeuvre the five foot cabinet through on to the landing with them . |
| 21 | Donna tried to raise the .38 , anxious to get a shot at him , but he knocked her hand down and the gun discharged into the floor . |
| 22 | The original board ( linked by the presence of John Locke to the Carolinas and the colonies of the 1660s ) helped to unite the two New Jerseys , and continued the policy of encouraging proprietors to sell or give up their special powers and turn their domains into royal colonies . |
| 23 | A close friend and confidant of the Rev. Martin Luther King , Abernathy helped to organize the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott which marked the beginning of the modern US civil rights movement : he was with King when the latter was assassinated in Memphis on April 4 , 1968 , and succeeded him as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) , the organization which the two men had founded in 1957 . |
| 24 | And I think they sat back a little bit , you know , and maybe tried to defend the three nothing lead . |
| 25 | Petion looked at her with a worried frown as he tried to link the two concepts . |
| 26 | They are brought by La Befana — a witch who tried to follow the Three Kings to see Jesus . |
| 27 | He kissed Laura , sat down , and tried to bring the two subjects put to him into order , and under one heading . |
| 28 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 29 | Yates blamed father Mike 's coaching after he failed to reach the 1500 metres final . |
| 30 | The volume of investments fell 10 per cent short of the target and failed to reach the 1988 level . |