Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got to go look for work tomorrow . |
| 2 | A major issue to be explored is why social disruption failed to stimulate unrest in lowland Scotland unlike other areas of Britain at this time . |
| 3 | In this and other cases a number of problems often arose reflecting lack of control and replicability of measurements , insufficient representativeness , unreliable accuracy of data , and problems of finding suitable methods of analysis of the data collected . |
| 4 | On more than one occasion , Nationalist troops clashed with Japanese forces in China , as Japan , realizing the threat to Japanese interests of a unified China , sought to sustain Zhang in power and impede the Nationalist advance . |
| 5 | However , rarely are such rationales clearly worked out or attempts made to provide evidence in support of these claims . |
| 6 | Teachers were promised salary increases and better social security facilities , while the ministry agreed to increase expenditure on education and set up a joint planning agreement with ANDES . |
| 7 | A notice in the guest 's room sought to exclude liability for loss or damage to guest 's property . |
| 8 | Tried using popgun after fiasco of toy cannon , he wrote , but that was too violent where other was too weak . |
| 9 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 10 | The imperial governor of the duchy of Spoleto , Conrad of Urslingen , tried to remain governor as vassal of the pope . |
| 11 | At Dunstable , where the rebels were townsmen , they tried to restrict freedom of trade to within the borough , whereas the rural Essex rebels had followed precisely the opposite policy , and at Yarmouth the insurgents , drawn from the neighbouring countryside attempted to overthrow the rights of the municipality ( 98 , pp.41 , 108–11 ) . |
| 12 | a ) Tedious , importunate , promiscuous woman , lacking talent of her own or understanding of the genius of others , who tried to trap Gustave into marriage . |
| 13 | The wind rose again , and again he tried to combine safety with dignity , thinking of the watchers below . |
| 14 | She liked the way his mind went back and back in layers : how he tried to justify emotion with reason . |
| 15 | I tried to draw G.P. from memory again today . |
| 16 | Comintern officials first tried to convert Sandino to Communism ( battling for influence with APRA ) and then , having failed , denounced him as a traitor . |
| 17 | In one investigation , he even tried to convert pollen into beeswax . |
| 18 | I tried to keep despair at bay , telling myself that some sort of mistake had been made . |
| 19 | Filling the holes in the net — Staff felt that the care programme approach helped to ensure continuity of care , and ‘ tighten up ’ service delivery . |
| 20 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 21 | The weekly-paid Greater Glasgow Health Board employees first discovered the bank 's mistake when they tried to withdraw money from cash machines . |
| 22 | Twice she tried to get water to Midnight . |
| 23 | Then one tried to unify gravity with quantum mechanics , one had to introduce the idea of " imaginary " time . |
| 24 | A regular fortnightly meeting of practitioners from different backgrounds , with a shared task , helped to develop trust over time . |
| 25 | Rumour was rife in 1588 and this was the time , armed with the deathbed testimony of Mrs Barnes , and the cutting taken from the drapes of Littlecote ( incidentally , the cutting was found to fit the curtains which were sold many years later as a memento to an American ) , that the lawyers , probably headed by Anthony Brooks , tried to charge Darrel in court . |
| 26 | After being bound apprentice to the barber-surgeon Edward Nourse , he rose to become master of anatomy to the Corporation of Surgeons and , for nearly forty years , Surgeon to St. Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
| 27 | In the post-war period , although the union confederations tried to limit organisation at plant level ( as being potentially destructive of class consciousness ) , the councils became increasingly significant . |
| 28 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |
| 29 | Earlier studies with less accurate methods for measurement of histamine , however , failed to detect increase in histamine in the gastric tissue or venous or arterial blood after stimulation with ethanol . |
| 30 | Fans were unable to see the highlight of the game on television last night after Tyne Tees TV and the football league failed to reach agreement over coverage . |