Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 2 | You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school . |
| 3 | Haydon failed to come to any agreement with his creditors . |
| 4 | However , the two parties failed to come to any agreement over plans for the construction of autoroute A16 , linking Boulogne with Amiens . |
| 5 | Hence Doctor Who 's second series got shortened to thirty-nine weeks , ending with ‘ The Time Meddler ’ instead . |
| 6 | By a different route , New Zealand and Newfoundland were similarly placed and , as we have seen , in 1922 the Irish Free State became added to this list . |
| 7 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 8 | In the USSR itself , art flourished at first in experiments after the 1917 Revolution , but became confined to social utility after 1922 . |
| 9 | After Victoria 's accession Lehzen , never skilled in personal relationships , failed to adjust to changed circumstances and her charge 's coming of age . |
| 10 | Mo agreed that even politicians could not please everybody and moved to talk to 31-year-old Sandra Gordon-Morgan , a part-time dressmaking teacher who lost her job when the local authority cut its adult education budget . |
| 11 | Herbert 's work involved travelling to various parts of Africa , Europe and the Middle East , and although theoretically based in Johannesburg , he told an interviewer that he had never spent more than six weeks continuously in his office there . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher tried to respond to social critics by emphasizing the government 's caring image in help for the elderly and programmes for schools . |
| 13 | While an angry woman in a cardigan sadly toasted herself a crumpet by the jet of a gas f ; re , he tried to shift to another topic . |
| 14 | Though its original statute forbad lending to foreign-controlled firms , a 1986 policy statement softened this policy by implying inclusion of local firms with minority shares held by multinationals ( Brazilian Government , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | A division of the property of State Television and Radio ( Gosteleradio ) , announced on Sept. 13 , involved transferring to Russian television ( launched in May — see p. 38206 ) the second all-union television channel and a part of the correspondents ' network . |
| 16 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 17 | They were given tea and biscuits , invited to watch a favourite soap opera on the television , then made to listen to current hits from the charts played for them by a young man called Danny on his ghetto-blaster . |
| 18 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 19 | The death penalty could also be applied to those who refused baptism , failed to conform to ecclesiastical disciplines given out by missionary leaders , or who refused to fast in Lent . |
| 20 | On the contrary , the two young persons communicate in a jokily affectionate private language , often about people in a not undistinguished but certainly restricted circle of acquaintances and Shakespear connections , who lived according to social codes now utterly unremembered . |
| 21 | The importance of livestock on the farms surveyed led to many farmers being less confident in machinery work . |
| 22 | They were arrested as they prepared to go to another rave in Ashington . |
| 23 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 24 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 25 | Nothing is barred in the crime novel , however much was barred in the old days of the detective story when , for instance , sexual relations often seemed confined to one person expressing just the discreetest interest in another . |
| 26 | The latest developments have emerged a year after police in Coatbridge received surprising new information about the case , believed to relate to confirmed sightings of Moira on the night she disappeared . |
| 27 | Adverbial clauses she subdivided according to functional relationship ( time and causal , for instance ) — the categories will be familiar to anyone nurtured in the traditional approach to clause analysis ! |
| 28 | ‘ He told me he 'd got in touch again the moment he 'd heard that you 'd decided to soft pedal a bit on work and so could be open to having a boyfriend . ’ |
| 29 | Police charged Lashley after he 'd confessed to fellow inmates in prison while he was serving 18 years for rape . |
| 30 | She realised she was revolving everything they 'd said to each other round and round in her mind . |