Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed to reach a consensus and in April and May submitted separate reports . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , they failed to stop a deluge of complaints about the collection 's shortcomings and María Corral 's personal tastes . |
| 3 | Even then they failed to catch a glimpse of the plane , it had been immediately engulfed in a fifty-foot-high curtain of water and spray . |
| 4 | FOREST 'S dismal season reached crisis point as they failed to beat a keeper who only this summer was struggling on the dole . |
| 5 | But they failed to place a swimmer in the final of the 100m backstroke whereas rivals Barnet Copthall , fourth in the 1500m thanks to a 16min 25.87sec swim by Malcolm McCallum , have a competitor in every final at the half-way stage . |
| 6 | Teachers at Dover College described Richens as a brilliant sportsman and scholar who they expected to become a lawyer . |
| 7 | On Sept. 17 the same leaders met the Public Security Minister , Ismaila Nimaga , after which they agreed to suspend a rally planned for the following day . |
| 8 | At the second meeting , in November , they agreed to call a halt to the free trade area negotiations . |
| 9 | They agreed to appoint a committee to facilitate the international monitoring of the violence . |
| 10 | They agreed to establish a US office in Hanoi to gather information about some 1,700 MIAs . |
| 11 | They asked to see a doctor and Zahira was taken to another part of the building where , she says , she was superficially examined by a doctor and a nurse . |
| 12 | At one point they stopped to smoke a chillim in a glade where the conifers were thinner and dense clumps of feathery-leafed bamboo had spread across the open spaces . |
| 13 | They helped to propagate a language through which the working class could articulate their frustrations ; they provided radical literature , leaflets and newspapers ; they furnished agitators with greater financial means and mobility than those drawn from the working class ; and they took a lead in establishing underground organizations able to build links between workers in different factories and cities and to survive recurrent police assaults . |
| 14 | When , when they helped to solve a problem at , at Can you remember any instance ? |
| 15 | One suggestion for their short-lived character comes out of Gellner 's view that they were parasitic on the very society to which they pretended to offer a counter . |
| 16 | The dragon-lady 's in a sober tizzy , eh ? , because they tried to give a bucket of beer to the horse . |
| 17 | They tried to put a bomb on a plane last year , did n't they , sir ? |
| 18 | They tried to put a bomb on a plane ! |
| 19 | They tried to put a bomb on a plane . |
| 20 | A CROWD of people fought with police officers as they tried to stop a council bailiff taking a car to pay for an outstanding poll tax bill , a court was told yesterday . |
| 21 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 22 | BRAVE police were attacked when they tried to save a motorist from a 1,000 strong ‘ lynch mob ’ . |
| 23 | She was a friend and adviser for the family as they tried to negotiate a path through an education system which was not always easy to understand . |
| 24 | BROOKSIDE actor Dean Sullivan — villain Jimmy Corkhill in the TV soap — grabbed three art gallery vandals after they tried to wreck a £500 painting . |
| 25 | Behind the facade , behind the glittering ceremony and the IAAF delegates ’ hotels which were far superior to those for the athletes , there was a lot of wrong-doing , not least the cheating that went on in the long jump where they tried to wangle a bronze medal for Evangelisti , the Italian , by inaccurate measuring . |
| 26 | Er they tried to write a rider to bypass it completely , but I do n't know whether that is sound . |
| 27 | They tried to start a conversation , but it was n't easy to make themselves heard above the music and chatter . |
| 28 | A quick friendly tap on the back of their hand as they tried to snaffle a piece , made the educational aspect of the delicatessen counter a two-way affair . |
| 29 | RAIDERS dropped a massive clanger when they tried to steal a half-ton bronze bell for scrap . |
| 30 | But , once they had arrived in large numbers , they tried to make a reporter 's life as easy as possible , providing basic material about the country and the war , easy access to military experts and well-protected trips to watch the fighting . |