Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert tried to marshal a few facts about twelfth-century Iran . |
| 2 | Sydney : Concern about the performance of News Corporation following a warning by Rupert Murdoch helped to pull the All Ordinaries index down 17.5 points to 1,755.8 , the day 's low . |
| 3 | Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly . |
| 4 | Nance Frank , one who was dropped , tried to put an all women crew together but failed dismally . |
| 5 | Sharpe tried to save a few seconds by vaulting the banister . |
| 6 | The more the CIA tried to investigate the more inconsistencies they turned up . |
| 7 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 8 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 9 | Delia Sutherland stopped calling her unreturned greetings , tried to ignore the many pairs of sun-tired eyes , slow-moving behind glaucous panes , as they measured her progress past the wooden church , the school , the town hall , the fire house , the inn . |
| 10 | After the presentation of the well-deserved awards by the Sunday Times ' editor Andrew Neil , TEC director Les Bell rose to say a few words . |
| 11 | He bent to throw a few pieces of turf on the fire and was reminded that the locals called them sods of turf . |
| 12 | When he tried to construct a few sentences in his mind — excusing himself — excusing Rose — they did n't sound lucid . |
| 13 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 14 | His voice seemed to fill the few inches ' space between them , bringing them even closer . |
| 15 | At the end of the meal , Dominic came to have a few words with me . |
| 16 | However , chimpanzees raised in the wild seemed to have no such difficulties , presumably because they had had plenty of opportunity to observe copulation in other chimpanzees and so had learnt how to perform it themselves . |
| 17 | When they had left , Julia wondered whether to say anything or not , but David seemed to have no such inhibitions . |
| 18 | Furthermore the resulting " socialist man " seemed to have the same needs as his capitalist counterpart for material goods , especially those based on energy and materially intensive technologies . |
| 19 | His voice only seemed to travel a few feet , then it stopped dead . |
| 20 | Drawing on North American experience , the Commission concluded that ‘ poor management was an important contributory factor to New York 's problems ’ , and sought to apply the same lessons here ( p. 2 ) . |
| 21 | His model and hero was his neighbour Mustafa Kenal Ataturk ; he strove to implement the same reforms in Iran as were being achieved in Turkey . |
| 22 | Sometimes we would go to the hills and find wild fruits and we began to grow a few things , like cucumbers and tomatoes , but it was generally hard going . |
| 23 | In itself this was not so radical a departure from polling methods , and soon Gallup and other agencies began to adopt the same methods . |
| 24 | In spare time — between politics and classics there was little spare time — he began to read a few books of theology . |
| 25 | Quickly I seized needle and thread and began to insert a few sutures in the vulva . |
| 26 | When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew . |
| 27 | Iran 's relations with other West European countries began to improve a few months after the initial call by Ayatollah Khomeini for Rushdie 's death , although Rafsanjani 's statement in May 1989 advocating the killing of five Westerners for every Palestinian killed in the occupied territories [ see pp. 36669-70 ] drew a strong rebuke from the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 28 | The pensioners ' organization threatened to defend the former pensions law through the courts . |
| 29 | The overdrive was fined in June 1986 and the leak began to show a few weeks later on a routine service . |
| 30 | As the blood began once more to course through George 's legs , his muscles went into spasms of cramp , so that they needed to pause every few yards . |