Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month . |
| 32 | But in the end she agreed to go with the Pitts to the local police station to express concern about the absentees . |
| 33 | Frankie Dettori , Forest Tiger 's rider , told the stewards that the colt failed to quicken with the field at the three-furlong marker and then ‘ died on him . ’ |
| 34 | By the time that was over Constanza was in a fatalistic mood , she agreed to wait until the autumn . |
| 35 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 36 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 37 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 38 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 39 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 40 | We were ordered into the service area off the kitchen and made to sit on the floor . |
| 41 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 42 | That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . " |
| 43 | In the Commons , Opposition leader John Smith provoked Tory shouts of fury when he asked : ‘ Is n't it inappropriate for the inquiry to be set up and asked to report to the very regional health authority whose own actions may be the subject of the inquiry ? |
| 44 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 45 | Proceedings were halted after the forum 's interim executive committee chaired by Seraphin Rwamba failed to agree with the President on the live radio coverage of deliberations , which Compaore opposed . |
| 46 | Following talks in Moscow on Sept. 9-10 representatives from member nations of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) failed to agree on the division of assets by Sept. 28 as scheduled [ see p. 38315 ] ; however , it was agreed in early October that this deadline should be extended to the end of November . |
| 47 | Despite the apparent progress at the UN , the Jakarta meeting ( JIM 3 ) ended early after the Cambodian factions failed to agree on the wording of a final communiqué . |
| 48 | The 26th International Conference , due to have been held in Budapest on Nov. 29-Dec. 6 , was postponed after members failed to agree on the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) . |
| 49 | A similar campaign finance bill ( including the honoraria ban and limitation on outside income ) was passed by the Senate in 1990 but was lost at the end of the congressional session when the two Houses failed to agree upon the final form of the legislation . |
| 50 | However , ministers failed to agree by the end of June on a complementary Convention on External Frontiers harmonizing immigration policy . |
| 51 | As a food and store safety officer , I felt dismayed and frustrated to see in the Journal , members of staff wearing inappropriate jewellery and , in high risk areas , all hair not kept within hats . |
| 52 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 53 | Johnson responded to this courteous , gentlemanly Highlander ; Boswell failed to see beyond the Gael , the Jacobite . |
| 54 | MK Trafford Holdings failed in a takeover bid for Manchester United , which failed to float on the stock market as well as the pitch . |
| 55 | ‘ Mme Verard , ’ he wrote , ‘ for so they called her , in order to pay her that honour due to her staunchness and fidelity ( though the union had never been blessed in God 's sight ) , had heard among her people that they planned to fall upon the settlers and massacre them in their beds one moonlit night . |
| 56 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 57 | Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament . |
| 58 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 59 | Other work , such as McCabe and Mrs Miller , The Long Goodbye , and Nashville , although warmly received by the critics , failed to perform at the box office . |
| 60 | He had raised his glass civilly enough in recognition of Vernon 's presence whenever their eyes had met across the floral displays , and he had always been very effusive if they chanced to meet in the queue for the cloakroom or on the pavement outside the State Restaurant , but he had held his distance in mixed company , had never introduced him , for instance , to Mrs Harcourt . |