Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was to be no pay , and yet any private who failed to attend for two hours , at least twice a week , for ‘ The Exercise ’ when the troops would ‘ … go through the Evolutions together ’ would be fined two shillings . |
| 2 | The minister did not introduce the anticipated stringent spending cuts , apparently under pressure from the PSOE , but said that the government would continue to use high interest rates to restrain domestic demand , which he expected to fall by 3.2 per cent in 1991 compared with 4.7 per cent in 1990 . |
| 3 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 4 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 5 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 6 | Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that Santa 's address , the answer to Enigma 595c , failed to appear on 2 February with the rest of the answers to the Christmas Enigmas . |
| 7 | They agreed to meet at ten-thirty the following day at the Archdeaconry . |
| 8 | She had n't , and they agreed to meet at seven . |
| 9 | They agreed to meet for three or four sessions , after which a session would be held with her parents in order to assess progress and to help Pamela further improve her communication with them . |
| 10 | We planned to come at four o'clock . |
| 11 | The bike was in his space when she got to work at eight . |
| 12 | Mr Spong is currently overseeing the closure of the Interchurch Media Programme ( IMP ) , which he helped to found in 1977 . |
| 13 | Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent . |
| 14 | Spoke to class teacher in corridor about work I proposed to do with one of his children . |
| 15 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 16 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 17 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 18 | She tried to count to ten , and tried even harder to remember what that astrologer had said to her , but had that astrologer really known what she was talking about anyway ? |
| 19 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 20 | The airport at Lukla , which Hillary helped to build in 1964 to fly in materials to build a hospital , has since become the most important mountain airfield in Nepal catering for vast numbers of trekkers and mountaineers . |
| 21 | With Miss Stocks 's support , the Cassell Trust grant was renewed yet again , but Miss Green appeared to have lost her former enthusiasm for breaking new ground and she concentrated her efforts in established WEA branches with the exception of Corby which she helped to re-establish in 1936 . |
| 22 | I tried to get on one two Mondays ago in Redditch |
| 23 | A small boy armed with a stick tried to beat off two hungry-looking dogs which sniffed suspiciously at the dead beggar 's bloody feet . |
| 24 | Public discontent at the defeats Britain had suffered , coupled with resentment of the unrepresentative character of the House of Commons , helped to produce in 1779–80 a movement of an almost revolutionary kind . |
| 25 | First she stopped at the coffee house to see if all was ready , then she stopped to speak to one of the servants . |
| 26 | Trehub and Abramovitch ( 1978 ) showed that three- and four-year-olds exhibited a similar preference when simply asked to choose between two piles of different sizes : they preferred the larger one . |
| 27 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 28 | Its price reflects the fact that it is not in the category of software expected to sell in millions of copies . |
| 29 | The search for a third museum able to contribute financially to the project ended when the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna agreed to participate in 1989 . |
| 30 | I found , in retrospect , that my participant observation had a ‘ career ’ that seemed to proceed through three stages : passive , interactive and active . |