Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher , on the other hand , claimed that previous Tory leaders had agreed on the country 's problems and what needed to be done — cutting public expenditure and direct taxation , reforming the unions , and restoring the incentives and financial disciplines of the free market — but failed to carry through the policies . |
| 3 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 4 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 5 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 6 | It must be said that in Britain the new public library authorities created in 1972 have in many cases failed to capitalize on the opportunities for better stock provision which the larger units were supposedly able to achieve . |
| 7 | ‘ Mme Verard , ’ he wrote , ‘ for so they called her , in order to pay her that honour due to her staunchness and fidelity ( though the union had never been blessed in God 's sight ) , had heard among her people that they planned to fall upon the settlers and massacre them in their beds one moonlit night . |
| 8 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 9 | The organiser of a country show which failed to pull in the crowds says he 'll be holding a full enquiry into what went wrong . |
| 10 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 11 | So I joined the half-dozen speechless loners and got to work on the Sidecars . |
| 12 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 13 | Permanently placed at Number 55 in the not-quite-so-top 100 , they are destined to be remembered as yet another band Virgin failed to encourage into the charts ( famous last words part 136 ) . |
| 14 | He varied this routine by pushing rubbish through the letter box , pulling the flowers from the tiny strip of garden we tried to cultivate between the flagstones and chalking rude messages on my car . |
| 15 | They got drunk and tried to carry off the women , and were fought off by the bridegroom with his Lapiths and his bosom-friend , the Athenian Theseus . |
| 16 | She pretended to search in the folds of her habit , where she had previously concealed the fox bag . |
| 17 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 18 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 19 | They tried to leap over the sandbags , but were too slow . |
| 20 | Grandparents , schoolfriends and neighbours all tried to write to the children , to send messages of love and support . |
| 21 | ‘ Those people who make the decisions should have gone out early in the morning and tried to putt to the holes we had to play to , ’ he added . |
| 22 | The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys . |
| 23 | Hickson and Jacques severed direct contact with each other ; Shearman and Pateman had a major disagreement over a question of loyalty to the WEA , and the two new university resident tutors were not informed of the proposed developments nor invited to comment on the proposals which might affect Essex and Norfolk . |
| 24 | She lay watching his face as he tried to concentrate on the complexities of the novel . |
| 25 | He tried to duck under the ropes to come over to us , but gets stopped by a security man who asks him what he 's playing at . |
| 26 | The authorities promised to look into the complaints in order to defuse the situation . |
| 27 | The Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive promised to look into the hold-ups . |
| 28 | Spike 's one eye tried to focus on the movements occurring in front of him . |
| 29 | I tried to play on the drums , I 'm not too good at that . |
| 30 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |