Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the differences between the two sides remained too great for there to be any substantial agreement upon the outlined proposals , the Prime Ministers agreed to proceed with the second round of scheduled discussions in Pyongyang ( North Korea ) on Oct. 16-19 . |
| 2 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 3 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 4 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 5 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 6 | Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , the student with difficulty revising , having drawn up his plan of action , agreed to work on the first item on his list and not to be side-tracked into attempting other items at the same time . |
| 8 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 9 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 10 | Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year . |
| 11 | Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian delegation failed to progress during the seventh round . |
| 12 | In particular the Polish government ( supported by the UK government , with which Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki had talks in London on Feb. 14 , and by Modrow , who visited Warsaw on Feb. 16 ) sought to participate in the second phase of the two-plus-four talks . |
| 13 | It was a good ten minutes later when they seemed to come to the last of The Courts , for the houses dropped down to two-storey , then one-storey ; and then they were confronted by an iron open-work gate set in a brick wall all of seven feet high . |
| 14 | The Biblical Commission responded with a letter which came to serve as the first part of an encyclical , Divino Afflante Spiritu , published by Pius XII on 30 September 1943 . |
| 15 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 16 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 17 | ‘ I do not know if I even have strength enough to regain the shelter I have just come from … ’ and her wings seemed to weaken by the second and her eyes to be pained . |
| 18 | The lift came to rest at the first floor and the door slid open . |
| 19 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 20 | She seemed to skate over the next part of her story , but Julia grasped the salient part , which was that one of the English officers who fought with the Italians had fallen in love with her , promised to marry her and secretly made love to her . |
| 21 | After two decades cotton came to account for a third of the increase in manufactured exports from 1784 – 6 to 1794 – 6 . |
| 22 | Helen had been hurt by Jochen [ Rindt 's ] death but somehow , perhaps because it was near the end of the racing year , we both seemed to mend before the next season got underway . |
| 23 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 24 | In 1970 the Heath government sought to fit in the third piece of the Plowden jigsaw — the efficiency function . |
| 25 | Next 's 8 p.c. fewer high street shops , to 312 , returned to profit in the second half and sales rose 6 p.c. year-on-year after a 9 p.c. second-half rise . |
| 26 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 27 | I agreed and we arranged to go to the second house . |
| 28 | During November the three largest parties announced their candidates for the presidential elections scheduled for April 26 , 1992 , to elect a successor to Kurt Waldheim , who had in June 1991 declined to stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 29 | Nicholson was in awe of Minnelli ; this was , after all , his first experience of a mainstream director of Minnelli 's vintage , and he began to worry after the first day when it was suggested he might get his hair cut . |
| 30 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |