Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | The Eleven agreed to proceed by qualified majority vote on health and safety , working conditions , information and consultation of workers , equality at work between men and women , and integration of persons excluded from the labour market . |
| 3 | You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school . |
| 4 | Steve , asked to sit at another table , astonished their host , Lord McAlpine , with the reply : ‘ Mah woman and I sit together . ’ |
| 5 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 6 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 7 | The Mini Master failed to appear at last year 's Oshkosh because one of the 582 engines failed at 6500 ft 30 minutes after take-off from San Marcos , Texas . |
| 8 | Haydon failed to come to any agreement with his creditors . |
| 9 | However , the two parties failed to come to any agreement over plans for the construction of autoroute A16 , linking Boulogne with Amiens . |
| 10 | The government has already invested large sums of money in engineering crops that resist insect pests and the climatic extremes expected to come with global warming |
| 11 | The press , again amazingly , failed to jump on this fact but this was the beginning of the Morrissey press explosion . |
| 12 | They passed , apparently oblivious , intent only on their own business ; but hardly a soul in the village failed to pass at some time during that day , and not one missed a detail of what was there to be seen . |
| 13 | Both Mr. Beloff and Mr. Richards , who appeared as amicus curiae , sought to extract from this passage , and from a comparable passage at p. 175B–C of that judgment , a proposition that the judicial duty to ensure that only fit and proper persons appear before them as barristers , which they perform through the machinery of the arrangements they have made , at their direction , with the Inns of Court , is somehow different in kind from the judicial duty , which existed until it was taken away by Parliament in 1990 , of determining who had the right of audience in different courts : see Abse v. Smith [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 14 | ‘ Kelly , ’ I shouted and she turned round and shrieked , ‘ Annie , darling ’ , and we tried to fall into each other 's arms . |
| 15 | In an address on March 9 Soglo paid tribute to Kerekou for accepting the political reforms , and promised to work towards consolidating democracy . |
| 16 | Sleepily she tried to adjust for this situation , flipping over and snuggling into the heated surface of his chest . |
| 17 | Josie tried to reach for some killer of an argument , a real zinger that she could pull out of the air and use to disarm all opposition . |
| 18 | His " Basis and directives for a Plan for economic recovery , in harmony with our national reconstruction " viewed the fundamental problem as the Spanish trade deficit , which he proposed to eliminate by massive state intervention to stimulate exports and reduce imports . |
| 19 | Did this fragmentation of your original family leave a longing which you then tried to appease in any way through literature ? |
| 20 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 21 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | John Haden , headmaster of Wymondham College in Norfolk and chairman of the Boarding Schools Association , tried to get beyond dismal economics in his speech to the conference : ‘ I want to move on this week from value-added to added values … we need confidence in the values , moral and spiritual , which our schools uphold and celebrate ’ , he said . |
| 24 | I cooked and ate and even washed up ; tried to get into some music and resisted the temptation to open a bottle of wine . |
| 25 | Instead he raised his talons and struck at the wire mesh in his own turn , which only provoked the other eagle to do the same again , the sounds of both of them increased by the flapping of their great wings and the crashing of their beaks on the cage walls as they vainly tried to get at each other . |
| 26 | With a little frown , she tried to think of another reason . |
| 27 | Carrie tried to think of some way to break it . |
| 28 | His mind was racing now , beads of sweat standing out on his forehead , as he desperately tried to think of some way of alerting the pump attendant to his predicament without endangering them both . |
| 29 | Afterwards Grayling tried to think of some reason in the environment that might have had something to do with the outburst . |
| 30 | ‘ He promised to stay in regular contact , but I have n't received a single phone call . ’ |