Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mini Master failed to appear at last year 's Oshkosh because one of the 582 engines failed at 6500 ft 30 minutes after take-off from San Marcos , Texas . |
| 2 | No problem here — Labour was sure of the answer , and Front Bench spokesperson Dr John Cunningham was so pleased and relieved that this time Labour was going to get it right , that when he rose to speak on 8th December in Standing Committee A , he repeated Labour 's position several times . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's right , ’ I said , pleased that he seemed to understand at last . |
| 4 | As they walked amidst the great trees , Ruth seemed to wake at last from the deadness that had possessed her since arriving in Andernesse . |
| 5 | What happened to all those budding artists who came to sign on last autumn and arrived with their brand new paint boxes and paper ? |
| 6 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 7 | Its management decided to start from first principles by developing critical success factors . |
| 8 | She twigged what I was driving at … that I suspected Alain had been murdered … and decided to get in first to throw me off the scent . |
| 9 | This side is thick with informers but all the same a thousand managed to swim across last year . |
| 10 | ( They managed to come on last year 's Central Wales Line trip . ) |
| 11 | ‘ Why did you come , Freddie ? ’ she managed to ask at last . |
| 12 | Keith Scott , agreed to move from third division Wycombe Wanderers to join the rescue effort at Swindon Town . |
| 13 | On reaching Port Said , however , the captain declared that Annesley would have to be more respectably attired if he wished to continue in first class . |
| 14 | Above right : British hopeful Ben Moon , who had to settle for fifth place . |
| 15 | He also looked likely to join Sheffield Wednesday at one stage but in the end had to settle for First Division Newcastle . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Colin Jackson once again had to settle for second best after a dramatic and controversial 60 metres hurdles final . |
| 17 | Dig in they might … but after a worthy battle , the ground finally slipped away beneath them and had to settle for second place . |
| 18 | In the junior race last year 's newcomer winner , James Courtney from Dundrod , had to settle for second best , with Ballymoney 's Phillip Read 11th . |
| 19 | COLIN Jackson once again had to settle for second best after a dramatic and controversial 60 metres hurdles final . |
| 20 | COLIN Jackson once again had to settle for second best after a dramatic and controversial 60 metres hurdles final . |
| 21 | The French managed three tries in all , but still had to settle for second place in the five nations championship ; the final score at Twickenham ; twenty one , nineteen . |
| 22 | Jerry Peel was pre-event favourite in this over-40s competition , but had to settle for third place behind Peter Black and Dave Barton after failing to read the last move . |
| 23 | Wachter had to settle for third place in the race after Italy 's Deborah Compagnoni produced one of her best performances of the season . |
| 24 | Young Malcolm Smith was provisionally given a place in the final but had to settle for 10th place after some deliberation . |
| 25 | Britain 's talented twosome both had to settle for sixth place in their respective finals . |
| 26 | Ok , here 's what the News Of The World ( cough , choke , vomit ! ! ) had to say about last Saturday 's game . |
| 27 | Rawlinson wished to attack at first light , or even earlier ; the French insisted on waiting until daylight so that they might gauge the effect of their all-night artillery fire . |
| 28 | Realising that the take-off would involve an element of risk , the Nimbus pilot had , in fact , refused to go at first , and had asked for the K8 to be moved . |
| 29 | Unbeaten Chavez held to draw in 88th bout |
| 30 | As Wolfgang Momberger of Steigenberger Hotels neatly put it in the Review of the World Travel & Tourism Environmental Research Centre ( WTTERC ) , published to coincide with last year 's Rio Earth Summit , ‘ We move , feed and accommodate hundreds of millions of people around the globe every year . |