Example sentences of "[vb past] agree [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , I simply told the girl I 'd agreed to leave a large sum of money I owed to a friend . |
| 2 | A plan to go into business with Chris Blackwell at Island did not materialise ; but she did agree to operate a new company , InterDisc , under the aegis of CBS . |
| 3 | The visit was Saw Maung 's first foreign trip since the SLORC takeover in September 1988 ; reports in February 1991 had claimed that Myanma had agreed to purchase a large arms package from China [ see p. 38005 ] . |
| 4 | And at the cemetery the vicar , a man who looked as if he needed far more consolation than he would ever be capable of dispensing , had agreed to say a few words before Henry 's address . |
| 5 | It was announced on Dec. 13 that British Airways , the Dutch carrier KLM , and the Belgian carrier Sabena had agreed to form a new airline , to be called Sabena World Airlines , in which each would hold a 20 per cent stake ( the Belgian government holding the remainder ) . |
| 6 | At the final Cabinet meeting of the Labour government , held at 12 noon on 24 August , shortly after MacDonald had agreed to lead a National Government , he said : |
| 7 | Malaysia 's Agriculture Minister Sanusi Junid said ASEAN had agreed to take a common stand to discourage similar actions by other countries . |
| 8 | Mubarak confirmed after talks with Shaikh Jabir that Egypt had agreed to join a planned Arab peacekeeping force in the Gulf . |
| 9 | In a statement before he left on Nov. 3 , Bérégovoy was quoted as saying that the two countries had overcome a period of strain and had agreed to give a new impetus to their partnership . |
| 10 | But he was still very much a public man , and to pay for his visit he had agreed to give a limited number of addresses and readings . |
| 11 | He had agreed to make a financial contribution of $50,000 from the family trust to help finance a social club to be named after him . |
| 12 | He told it , to its utter stupefaction , that though it was out , he was in ; that he had agreed to head a National government composed of individuals rather than parties , as a temporary expedient for the sole purpose of settling the financial crisis ; Baldwin and Samuel were prepared to join . " |
| 13 | They had agreed to have a final drink after Duncan had unpacked . |
| 14 | It was announced on Dec. 13 that the Trevi Group of Justice and Interior Ministers formed after the Trevi security conference of 1976 ( see pp. 34883 ; 36492 ) , had agreed to establish a joint police database for use primarily against international terrorism and drug dealing . |
| 15 | As a stepping stone towards a regional common market , the Presidents of El Salvador , Guatemala and Honduras , meeting on May 12 in Nueva Ocotepeque , Honduras , had agreed to establish a free-trade zone creating a potential market of 20,000,000 consumers and to boost annual trade between the three from the currently estimated US$600 million to US$4,500 million . |
| 16 | US presidential envoy Gen. John Vessey announced at the end of a visit to Vietnam on Oct. 17-19 [ see p. 38768 for February visit ] that the Vietnamese government had agreed to start a nationwide search of its military archives for documents and photographs relating to US servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam War . |