Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we went to press , the OMG expected to have in hand eight submissions representing some 25 companies . |
| 2 | The CIS states agreed to act in concert on food imports from abroad , an agreement which was also signed by Georgia , but again Ukraine demanded the right to negotiate separate food credits for itself . |
| 3 | The Rangers defence failed to deal with cross balls all day , and it was inevitable the home side should use that route successfully in taking the lead after just 12 minutes . |
| 4 | The Rangers defence failed to deal with cross balls all day , and it was inevitable the home side should use that route successfully in taking the lead after just 12 minutes . |
| 5 | Many towns in the Middle Ages sought to have as part of their local welfare services a Christian recluse whose chief work was prayer and availability to people as spiritual adviser . |
| 6 | The applicants ' vessels failed to qualify for entry in the new register and they challenged the compatibility of the relevant provisions of the Act of 1988 with Community law by an application for judicial review . |
| 7 | In 1967 the Earl of Antrim and a number of other surviving Irish peers sought to set in motion the machinery for a fresh election of 28 of their number , and petitioned the House to this end . |
| 8 | It said the ten CIS nations agreed to co-operate on oil and gas production at a meeting of heads of state last month . |
| 9 | It was the first enthronement of an archbishop since television became a national service ; and Ramsey agreed to broadcast on television on the night before his enthronement . |
| 10 | Snegur asked to stay in office pending direct presidential elections , but the Moldavian Supreme Soviet refused his resignation , and instead formed a commission to formulate proposals to reform executive power in Moldavia . |
| 11 | Many of the early studies of platelet function in diabetic subjects failed to take into account other factors known to influence platelet function , particularly the presence or absence of diabetic vascular complications . |
| 12 | 4 subjects failed to attend for assessment at 4 weeks although they remained in the study . |
| 13 | These findings persisted when variables found to correlate with repetition were controlled for across the three groups . |
| 14 | When Matthew Parris and another Tory MP who has since lost his seat tried to live on income support for a week , they both found it virtually impossible . |
| 15 | In May 1314 they maintained that they could be taxed only in their own assemblies ; when Edward tried to proceed through parliament he often found himself thwarted — as in January 1316 — by the inadequate attendance of the clergy . |
| 16 | In one corner stood a case of stuffed fish whose glassy eyes seemed to gaze with malevolence at the newcomers . |
| 17 | For a time a chorus of bells from the monastery seemed to peel in celebration each time I finished a pitch . |
| 18 | He was firm with the three of us , but Richard seemed to get into trouble being a strong minded boy and rugby mad . |
| 19 | Even the opposition seemed to slow in sympathy , but he still kept the ball and did quite well each time . |
| 20 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 21 | Dana came to stop in front of a large café . |
| 22 | Dustin seemed to behave towards fame with a certain cynicism , rather like Ben Braddock at the party thrown for him by his parents to celebrate his graduation . |
| 23 | Her mouth opened to scream for help , but the sound emerged as a strangled groan as she realised the mind-numbing truth . |
| 24 | The peasant revolt that broke out in February 1921 in the Tambov guberniia threatened to cut off rail connections between Moscow and the Volga region , since hungry peasants held up wheat trains and ransacked them . |
| 25 | During the 1950s , with advances in techniques for detecting 14 C , discrepancies of several centuries began to emerge between radiocarbon ages and historical ages for the Egyptian Old Kingdom . |
| 26 | As he did so , his eyes began to widen in astonishment . |
| 27 | Slowly her features softened and her eyes began to twinkle with merriment . |
| 28 | According to AFT , Singh threatened to withdraw from politics and Koirala in turn offered to resign . |
| 29 | The eighth-century Northumbrian annals in the Historia Regum and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D ( s.a. 761 ) show that Aethelwald Moll began to reign as king of Northumbria on 5 August 759 , and the battle of Eildon , which lasted from 6–9 August 761 , is described as taking place ‘ at the beginning ’ of his third year . |
| 30 | The wind was driving me further out to sea and my boat began to fill with water . |