Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are pleased that Northern Ireland party leaders agreed to meet to discuss the possibilities of progress . |
| 2 | Councillors agreed to try to promote the outstations for 12 months to see if the public make more use of them . |
| 3 | WASHINGTON ( AP ) — Zaire 's President , Mobutu Sese Seko , and President George Bush met to try to prevent the collapse of an agreement between Angola and the US-backed Unita rebels , reached through Zairean mediation in June . |
| 4 | He tried to go to see the family , but the palace was surrounded by Bolshevik guards and Russian soldiers . |
| 5 | Although Levi promised to work to unite the party " in order to heal the wound " , commentators claimed that the affair had exposed deep divisions in the party which might have a major impact on the June 23 general election . |
| 6 | The inference was obvious , and in a letter to his brother , a distinguished mycologist , Lister proposed to try using the mould for treating patients . |
| 7 | City : Attalli 's new order of things — one year on Frank Kane finds a Frenchman in the Anglo-Saxon world of banking pleased with progress at the institution he helped to found to rebuild the East |
| 8 | CHASE de Vere Investments has launched a Five-year Guaranteed Income Bond designed to provide to provide an income rising from 5.5 per cent for a basic rate taxpayer and 4.68 per cent for a higher rate taxpayer , to 7.5 per cent and 6.38 per cent in year five for basic rate and higher rate respectively . |
| 9 | He had been keeping a wary eye on Jacques Devraux while he made another laborious copy of the revolutionary tract and he stopped writing to watch the Frenchman walk back to his own quarters . |
| 10 | W. S. I tried to avoid using the stick . |
| 11 | Four years after the collapse of the communist bloc , funds promised to help cleanse the environment of Eastern Europe are still tied up in banks and many aid pledges have evaporated , The European reported . |
| 12 | Graham , almost automatically , tried to imagine drawing the scene , |
| 13 | I sometimes tried to imagine blocking the Maggot during a game of American football and simply could not . |
| 14 | While the statutory and common law rules referred to do impose a duty to provide reasons in certain circumstances , the absence of any general duty is still a most significant gap in our procedural protection . |
| 15 | Mr Delors yesterday tried to deny scuppering the agreement . |
| 16 | In addition , he and Generals Muñoz Grandes and Martínez Campos asked Franco what he proposed to do to control the Falange . |
| 17 | He stopped dictating to take a phone call and I saw his face become shocked , then very grave . |
| 18 | Below decks , Grace was shipshape , but after calling on Lord Jim Nenna always felt impelled to start cleaning the bright-work . |
| 19 | Officers interviewed a lorry driver in Doncaster after he reported having seen a girl who resembled Moira with two other lorry drivers the day after she disappeared . |
| 20 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test and most reported finding it extremely difficult . |
| 21 | No subjects reported having expected a memory test even though many of them had already taken part in Study 1 . |
| 22 | None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test . |
| 23 | The army also reported having overrun an LTTE camp at Toppigala near Batticaloa on April 9 , killing 77 guerrillas and losing seven soldiers . |
| 24 | As he moved to start dousing the flames , Ashley fled into the small whitewashed bedroom on the other side of the hall . |
| 25 | As Fraser tried to drive out of the car park one of the men tried to prise open the sunroof of his car , then kicked the side of it , causing dents in the driver 's side wing and door . |
| 26 | They tried to force open the till but failed , then ran off empty handed . |
| 27 | The man from The Sun started to bang his head against the cage yelling ‘ They 'll never believe this in Wapping ’ , and two others said they suffered from claustrophobia and tried to kick open the lift doors . |
| 28 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 29 | There was a resolution he tried to get passed every year , condemning the invasion and calling for a withdrawal . |
| 30 | Jan. 26 Siyad Barre reported to have fled the capital in a tank , to an unknown destination . |