Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 2 | Some 171 full members and 107 alternate members ( with 300 other sundry officials looking on ) met to agree on the new ‘ proposals for the ten-year programme ( 1991–2000 ) and eighth five-year plan ( 1991–95 ) ’ . |
| 3 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 4 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 5 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 6 | A similar campaign finance bill ( including the honoraria ban and limitation on outside income ) was passed by the Senate in 1990 but was lost at the end of the congressional session when the two Houses failed to agree upon the final form of the legislation . |
| 7 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 8 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 9 | They agreed to concentrate on the under-age international sides and to the inauguration of a development squad . |
| 10 | An objector , who had not given the notice required by the rule , was not allowed to oppose confirmation when he sought to appear before the confirming authority , and the licence was confirmed . |
| 11 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 12 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 13 | So the GEC approach was blocked while BOC 's lawyers got to work on the proposed take-over . |
| 14 | Yesterday , a management committee , which included members of Cheshire County Council , agreed to work with the National Trust in preparing a protest . |
| 15 | The moment that red ball began to flatten , she sat on a rock and strained to see along the flat road , along the plain leading to Siena , and sure enough she saw a black dot which grew larger and became a single horse and then she stood up and began to run towards it , waving and shouting . |
| 16 | At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite . |
| 17 | The Jews were caught in the war between Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Ptolemy VI Philometor in which Egypt was saved by Roman intervention in 168 B.C. Antiochus IV who was robbed of his victory by the Romans tried to cope with the consequent social and economic problems by interfering with indigenous sanctuaries and their finances . |
| 18 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 19 | She twisted herself and tried to see through the buckled plate again . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |
| 21 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 22 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 23 | He had been beaten , threatened with knee-capping , burned on the neck with a cigarette and invited to jump from the open door of the speeding vehicle during the journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne . |
| 24 | On Monday morning , she reported to work at the Swift building on Des Voeux Road . |
| 25 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 26 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |
| 27 | Although he promised to listen to the Welsh , he also rebuked those who had criticised his appointment , as a Tory Right-winger and MP for Wokingham . |
| 28 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 29 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 30 | ‘ She must 've gone away , ’ said Scarlet , gratified to hear of the dead plants and Barbs 's dereliction of duty , for she had been rather hurt not to be asked to mind Eliot . |