Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun sg] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Graham was amazed , too , after seeing another high-octane Arsenal performance lack only the finishing touch against a weakened Coventry side who manfully tried to keep pace with the champions . |
| 2 | I tried to make conversation with the three silent people round the table . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Poul Schlüter on Nov. 22 called an early general election for Dec. 12 , after his minority centre-right coalition failed to reach agreement with the opposition Social Democratic Party ( SD ) over the 1991 budget and an economic programme including tax reforms . |
| 4 | As to the wider dissemination of culture , the few cells that had been active in this respect seemed to equate success with the regular dispatch of newspapers and made no personal contacts to follow this up . |
| 5 | Press and provincial assemblies hastened to proclaim solidarity with the Tsar . |
| 6 | At the same time a group of agrarian reformers came to have influence with the crown . |
| 7 | On Sundays , when various other children , sons of friends of the Imperial family , came to spend time with the Prince , the Emperor and Empress made a point of being with them , sometimes taking part in the plays which the children acted . |
| 8 | What sanctions existed to enforce compliance with the orders of missus or count ? |
| 9 | In the same year the US Navy began to envisage co-operation with the Royal Navy if the Yugoslavs took aggressive action in the Adriatic . |
| 10 | From that you began to make contact with the memories of conflict and strong feeling that will be invaluable in your future writing work . |
| 11 | In the Southern Band the number of cattle-stealing cases reported to the courts failed to keep pace with the increase in population , but there was no general decline at this time . |
| 12 | The moribund management , dominated by WG Edington , chief general manager from 1951 to 1956 , failed to keep pace with the expansion of rival lenders . |
| 13 | This can be interpreted in a number of ways but the most likely reason is that customers were cashing in on relatively good prices as software vendors failed to keep pace with the rouble 's sudden plunge . |
| 14 | The price of rice , which was in any case subject to considerable fluctuations , failed to keep pace with the increase in the prices of many other commodities purchased by samurai . |
| 15 | During the 1950s AWB awards failed to keep pace with the cost of living and farm workers found that the gap between their earnings and those of other workers was widening once more . |
| 16 | The coordinator Rebecca Johnson says they failed to re-establish contact with the vessel , which had been protesting against the resumption of nuclear testing on the island . |
| 17 | The young man managed to combine collusion with the antiseptic disinterest of a nurse . |
| 18 | The hero , a knight named Peter Loschy , went to do battle with the dragon . |
| 19 | It was at a time when many lesbians , angry at the lack of weight given to women 's issues within the mixed movement and at the continuing sexism of many gay men , chose to prioritize work with the women 's movement . |
| 20 | A team of three police negotiators managed to make contact with the man , thought to be 24 , with a telephone passed through an upstairs window . |
| 21 | A team of three police negotiators managed to make contact with the man , thought to be 24 , with a telephone passed through an upstairs window . |
| 22 | So when the Rugby League team next appeared to play basketball with the town 's women 's team , my mother picked my father out . |
| 23 | the PLO chair ) and Elias Freij , issued statements which appeared to countenance compliance with the Israeli conditions . |
| 24 | Another factor is whether or not the death of a plant or animal necessarily coincided with the point at which it ceased to exchange carbon with the environment . |
| 25 | While Gloria helped dry the dishes after tea , Mrs Parvis continued to find fault with the people who ran the country . |
| 26 | RAIN continued to play havoc with the week 's fixtures yesterday , claiming four meetings and threatening to hit more . |
| 27 | The concept that social intervention could have effects unintended by the practitioners , and which could be revealed only by asking the clients for their subjective impressions , took a long time to achieve currency , and had to do battle with the time-honoured attitude in professional practice that the client could not be expected to know what he , or more usually she , wanted . |
| 28 | During the eighteenth century , corn-milling had to keep pace with the growth of population and industry . |
| 29 | The CNIAG later took part in discussions with the Raybestos workers and continued to share information with the workers by producing a series of leaflets on the hazards of asbestos and on the need for workers to organize autonomously from the trade union in order to defend their health and safety . |
| 30 | The Minerals Group continued to maintain contact with the Minerals Industry Research Organisation ( MIRO ) by representing BGS on the MIRO Research Advisory Panel that is concerned with exploration , mining and geology . |