Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 2 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 3 | Since then my ( now ex- ) girlfriend was really good mates with the two of them cos she was in their year ( Yes I know I 'm a paedophile ) so that was how I got to go to their 18th birthday parties and Al 's leaving do . |
| 4 | However , Nellie 's nagging won the day and he agreed to go in his new Austin car and look for Dr Nolan . |
| 5 | An arbitration commission of eminent constitutional lawyers from France , Italy and Germany was appointed ; they were subsequently joined by others from Belgium and Spain when Yugoslavia failed to agree on its own two appointees . |
| 6 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 7 | As a consequence they were ‘ extracted ’ from their culture and failed to communicate to their own people . |
| 8 | But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life . |
| 9 | She was still looking admiringly around when , ‘ I 'm so happy that you agreed to dine with me this evening , ’ Lubor stated warmly . |
| 10 | Certainly the people I got to know during my fifteen months on the sports circuit for the Sunday Correspondent readily confirmed my own impression that McIlvanney is the best in the business . |
| 11 | ‘ The most glaring one was last night when you tried to appeal to my pragmatic nature by admitting that ‘ it would only be lust ’ — no doubt you imagined we could establish some sort of ‘ adult ’ agreement on the basis of that . ’ |
| 12 | He mentions two examples of work that he implies Clark tried to claim as his own . |
| 13 | She tried to cling to her comforting belief that somewhere in the Company was Friend with all that his glow of meanings implied ; the feel of him was still clear in her mind . |
| 14 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , having had far too much to drink , Clare woke up the next morning in James 's bed , saw that it was nearly nine o'clock , fled to work in her crumpled clothes but arrived late again . |
| 16 | As she sat and waited for Clelia , she looked out across the park , at the spring trees , and tried to concentrate on her Spanish . |
| 17 | However hard she tried to concentrate on her driving , his nearness was distracting . |
| 18 | She never tried to escape from their constant supervision , avoided both Lachlan and Farquhar like lepers , took sly slaps and pinches in silence , made much of loving her son , and could , they discovered , tell a story to make a corpse laugh . |
| 19 | Frantically she tried to escape from his tightening grip , but he merely laughed and trapped her against the hatch with his body . |
| 20 | A project support worker visited to help with her personal care and play a safeguarding role at times when other care was not available . |
| 21 | She would still have a spare bedroom , quite enough for the modest entertaining she proposed to do in her widowed state . |
| 22 | I even tried to read to you that night at the end of last September . |
| 23 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 24 | On an early visit there , my father stopped to call on his old friend and he left my younger brother Roy and me in the trap . |
| 25 | In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend . |
| 26 | This real doctor was a much younger man than the Doctor Bailey I created to live in his old house . |
| 27 | After his inspection , he tried to think of something positive to say . |
| 28 | Nicandra tried to think of something pleasing to say : " Maman , do you think the Little Lord Jesus heard me ? " she came out with at last . |
| 29 | I tried to think of something dignified and contemptuous to say to the officer but could find nothing . |
| 30 | She asked for red wine and when he brought it she raised the glass and tried to think of something original and witty by way of a toast but he forestalled her by saying , ‘ Cheers , ’ and she could think of no other response . |