Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing waiting in the yard , while another pony was being saddled , Gabriel asked to see the monastery chapel . |
| 2 | Despite gaining a second corner during the half , Milton failed to penetrate the home defence and at half time neither side had scored . |
| 3 | Automatic cameras snapped a picture of Nichola Grabauskas 's Metro number plate and the back of the breakdown truck but failed to spot the tow rope . |
| 4 | BANK staff failed to spot the age difference when 26-year-old Kenneth Wilby posed as his father . |
| 5 | I expected to see the laurel leaf in the back you know |
| 6 | I attended one course with about 50 porn star wannabes — nearly all of them men — and got to see the way things operate both in front of and behind the camera . |
| 7 | Five students , aged about 20 , were filming the public for a project when they were approached by a man who asked to borrow the Ferguson Videostar camcorder . |
| 8 | The Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 , which sought to implement the Law Commission proposals , did not , therefore , eliminate the distinctions between conditions and warranties and innominate terms . |
| 9 | Finally , I 'd won the toss and got to drive the Bob Marley down to Kent . |
| 10 | The third potential market is the corporate arena , including government , education and local authorities , expected to like the multimedia capabilities for creating graphic or animated presentations . |
| 11 | At the turn of the century the town expanded to accommodate the sugar cane workers , and a railway line led to the Haleiwa Hotel . |
| 12 | The committee agreed to inform the county council it had no objections to the proposal as long as the weighbridge was only used by landfill traffic and the pit only operated in the hours specified in the application . |
| 13 | The number of exceedances of the eight-hour air quality standard decreased by over 80 per cent during this same period but , even so , 41 areas failed to meet the air quality standard in 1988–9 . |
| 14 | Milan agreed to accept the Roncaglia decrees , and agreed to the appointment of a podesta . |
| 15 | Waggler and caster fished alongside the weed bed tempted tench skimmers and roach , but as Darlington rods took the next three places , Bob 's best efforts failed to secure the team victory . |
| 16 | Mr Lamont had cut car tax from 10 per cent to five per cent in March this year but his action failed to pull the car industry out of a three-year nose dive . |
| 17 | Because of a sandstorm , the pilot failed to find the landing lights and belly-flopped the Algerian Antonov-26 in the desert . |
| 18 | I was one of the bowlers asked to provide the cannon fodder to the big international batting stars on what was meant to be a fun day out . |
| 19 | … failed to obtain the module signature due to a LIFESPAN failure |
| 20 | … failed to obtain the module signature from LIFESPAN , because … |
| 21 | Significantly , his successor was not a football player at all but a journalist who got to know the Arsenal chairman while working as a society correspondent for the New York Herald . |
| 22 | Among the book 's central allegations were claims that Mossad had ( i ) failed to inform the United States of prior intelligence concerning the October 1983 suicide bombing of the US Marine battalion headquarters in Beirut , the Lebanese capital [ see pp. 32646-47 ] ; ( ii ) established a secret spy network ( " A1 " ) in the USA ; ( iii ) helped bring about the dismissal of Andrew Young from his post of US representative at the UN in 1979 after secretly recording Young 's clandestine meetings with PLO officials [ see p. 29956 ] ; and ( iv ) caused the downfall of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin in 1977 by exposing his wife 's illegal foreign currency bank account [ see p. 28533 ] . |
| 23 | He said the figure included people who no longer needed treatment , those who had gone private and failed to inform the health authority , and those who were reassessed . |
| 24 | The action was brought against the police on the grounds that they failed to inform the prison authorities of the deceased 's suicidal tendencies . |
| 25 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 26 | The Captain tried to slide the back window down as unobtrusively as possible when the young Sub-lieutenant sitting beside the driver began to choke . |
| 27 | These timber works have all been replaced now , but north-west of Devoran , close to the modern viaduct across the river , are the remaining piers of a timber viaduct Brunel built to carry the Truro-Falmouth branch line of the Great Western Railway . |
| 28 | Officers stood guard at the gates of the cemetery , making sure that only members of the official funeral cortege entered to attend the burial service . |
| 29 | As he tried to breathe the chill night air filled the gaping hole in his neck . |
| 30 | When I tried to re-introduce the zero foods my problems were milk and wheat , with milk the main culprit behind my symptoms . |