Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clodumar said that the government planned to invest further in Air Nauru , but that it would not re-open diplomatic missions in Hong Kong , American Samoa , Japan , Hawaii and the Cook Islands , which had been closed under the Aroi administration for reasons of economy . |
| 2 | They agreed to go quietly on condition that their leader , Ian Morrison , was allowed to negotiate with AW management . |
| 3 | They agreed to go quietly on condition that their leader , Ian Morrison , could negotiate with AW management . |
| 4 | On Oct. 31 the leaders signed a declaration pledging closer co-operation and agreed to meet annually in future . |
| 5 | At a meeting in Prague on Nov. 20 , chiefs of staff agreed to work together on defence research and the development and production of military equipment . |
| 6 | Lord Mackay referred to work already under way to simplify and speed defamation case procedures and said : ‘ I would be very keen to encourage anyone who wished to develop systems which do not require to take people to law . ’ |
| 7 | They reportedly promised to work together in order to speed up the " deep reconstruction of the state " while " preserving social peace " . |
| 8 | When she admitted the affair to Matthew , hoping for a display of anger or jealousy , he meekly apologised for not being good enough for her and promised to try harder in future . |
| 9 | The meeting whose dangers she tried to reason away by recourse to Freud . ’ |
| 10 | Gibson accepted the ribbing and promised to check more in future . |
| 11 | DNA aneuploidy was identified in 75 tumours ( 61% ) and found to correlate significantly with tumour stage . |
| 12 | Following requests for a direct service to Edinburgh an opportunity arose to extend two duplicate journeys that S.M.T. proposed to operate commercially from East Calder . |
| 13 | I learnt to sit formally at table and to eat three inedible courses of stodge with an incomprehensible array of surplus cutlery ; to whisper when I spoke as I was considered ‘ too loud ’ ; and to stop gesturing with my hands or to touch in conversation , as people inevitably shrank away from me . |
| 14 | Erm you seemed to go straight from sort of the , the sociability side into , into a statement of purpose erm and then went back to er how did you come to do business with Friends Provident . |
| 15 | Something of the atmosphere in Roxie Farmer 's house seemed to go home with Coffin and give him a restless night . |
| 16 | How can I forget Johnny McCarthy whose humour , whose mimicry , whose abundant love of life on so many , on so many times seemed to diminish almost to extinction , those grinding moments of hopelessness . |
| 17 | The memory seemed to grow strongly into life , much more real than the present moment ; the glossy cream-coloured cooker stood like a house , black knobs winking like eyes , and the big brown table was a house , roofed over and four-square . |
| 18 | But as Lewis now saw them , Morse 's eyes seemed to grow significantly in circumference as they fell upon the result of the 3.15 : |
| 19 | Then the sun came through , and light brightened , and the standing dream that Wolski had seen seemed to drift away into memory and he found himself staring into the eyes of the old female golden eagle . |
| 20 | He seemed to do better at Arse and had a good season when we won the league . |
| 21 | It always seemed to rain more at night . |
| 22 | The minister Nicholas Breton , for example , noted in 1603 that his parishioners ‘ came to service more for fashion than devotion ’ , while the preacher John Angier of Denton in Lancashire believed that his parishioners came ‘ for no other purpose but to sleep , as if the sabbath were made only to recover that sleep they have lost in the week ’ . |
| 23 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 24 | Apart from milk , they seemed to live largely on bread and baked beans . |
| 25 | Separate national autonomies had appeal for those with some stake in society , the lower-middle classes , craft and some skilled workers ; the right wing gravitated towards peaceful reform and nationalism , while the left endeavoured to hold hard to revolution and a working-class unity that would cut horizontally across the empire . |
| 26 | As it seemed to get closer to reality , I felt myself changing . |
| 27 | The abbey of Leicester came to depend increasingly on rent income from its demesnes , and also from its tithes , and most demesnes were rented by 1477 , while Owston Abbey in the same shire had abandoned direct exploitation of demesne lands in all but three villages before 1400 . |
| 28 | Later she came to depend more upon excision , upon the evocation of what she called ‘ the thing not said ’ ; castigating Balzac for delivering an excess of information , she praised the hint , the pared-down suggestion . |
| 29 | Even their awareness of second-rank leaders came to depend more upon television viewing though , in this case , no less upon their interest in politics and their access to the quality press . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , significant groups of intellectuals and artists , often in a somewhat modish , self-conscious way which attracted derision in the press , seemed to move away from identification with their society , so alien to their instincts did what they saw as the unacceptable , philistine face of Thatcherism appear to be . |