Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh aye he applied to go to the Gulf . |
| 2 | But in the end she agreed to go with the Pitts to the local police station to express concern about the absentees . |
| 3 | Johnson responded to this courteous , gentlemanly Highlander ; Boswell failed to see beyond the Gael , the Jacobite . |
| 4 | Prunskiene , who had resigned as Prime Minister on Jan. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 37944 ] , consistently denied the accusations ( made in April — see p. 38880 ) , claiming that a document bearing her signature in which she agreed to work for the KGB was a forgery and that the trial was politically motivated . |
| 5 | There is now a wide variety of special hardware and software for handicapped people , much of it designed to work with the BBC , Archimedes and IBM PC-compatible computers commonly used in schools , though it is equally applicable to adults . |
| 6 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 7 | We got the Jet Ski onto its trailer but William 's Merc was one of the cars trapped on the slip ; he tried to reason with the BMW people , then sat in the car and sulked . |
| 8 | The Dutch launched their much larger East India Company with about £500,000 of capital two years later , and when the English company tried to trade with the Spice Islands the Dutch opposed it fiercely . |
| 9 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 10 | Sometimes famous musicians came to perform in the Lake District . |
| 11 | A leading scientific journal , Nature , did not publish the paper but none of this seemed to matter before the Utah steamroller . |
| 12 | The committee then adjourned to meet at the Blenheim coffee house , New Bond Street , on 1 2 January 1 79 1 . |
| 13 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 14 | ‘ I used to envisage difficulties when I came to socialise in the Bangor area and would meet pupils . |
| 15 | The beam came to rest on the Ngo brothers , and after a moment 's hesitation Duclos bent down and seized Hoc by the arm . |
| 16 | Finally Theodora came to rest in the Dersingham chapel which formed the south transept looking towards the altar at right angles . |
| 17 | The Vimy came to rest in the Derrygimla bog , Clifden , Ireland , June 15 , 1919 . |
| 18 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
| 19 | It seemed to leap off the glossy surface of the black lough , it seemed to echo off the Inishowen shore , it rang in Rory 's ears . |
| 20 | Mrs Jelbart must be working out well as a housekeeper , and from a couple of things her father had said , Belinda gathered that she seemed to care about the Jones boys in a more personal way too . |
| 21 | At first , he says , people did not understand what she wanted , but she came to learn about the Masai and write it in a book . |
| 22 | But the plans failed because Adams and McGuinness failed to win over the IRA leadership . |
| 23 | ‘ You like it so much you agreed to sail across the Mediterranean , with a man you 'd only met a couple of times , regardless of the fact that you did n't know one end of a boat from the other . ’ |
| 24 | A sadder figure still was a once well-to-do , highly educated London grandfather who had quarrelled with his wife and retreated to live in a Battersea slum , running his home as a junk shop and seeking consolation in the local pub : |
| 25 | When the others returned , bringing the extra equipment , he took a field radio , stepped outside and began to transmit to the Hercules that was still circling around above them somewhere . |
| 26 | Farming began to flourish in the Lothian plains once the bogs had been cleared and fords or bridges provided over the network of rivers and streams . |
| 27 | So we arranged to meet in the Brunel Bar in the Great Western Hotel at Paddington |
| 28 | E/3 all-metal cars began to appear on the Thornton Heath route 42 . |
| 29 | As the sun began to set behind the Qutab Minar , I made up my mind to explore sometime soon what was once the most enormous complex of fortifications in all Islam . |
| 30 | It aroused fury among the educated classes in Teheran , and it was never ratified ny the Majles , It was at this time that the same Iranian nationalists began to look to the United States for support against British exploitation . |