Example sentences of "succeed in [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This follows the realisation that if the hunters succeeded in wiping out the goats the vegetation might swiftly regenerate , making it impossible to see the wary pigs . |
| 2 | These succeeded in bringing out the noble , Edwardian character of the music ; but failed to convey adequately its restless , questioning and sometimes despairing elements — as Elgar 's performances did so clearly . |
| 3 | By the time the boat reached the island Sven Hjerson had still not succeeded in shaking off the ample , daisy-sprinkled form of Arabella Buckley . |
| 4 | But , in the aggregate , they are unable to increase their holdings of bonds and they only succeed in driving up the price of bonds . |
| 5 | Three years ago , eight I R A men were shot dead when they attempted to blow up Loughgall 's police station ; close to the anniversary of those deaths this year , the I R A succeeded in blowing up the base . |
| 6 | The mighty Great Eastern not only laid a new cable ; it succeeded in hauling up the earlier one splicing on a centre-piece , and lowering it again to the sea-bed . |
| 7 | ‘ did proceed across ( or along ) the carriageway ’ This point means that the pedestrian tried or succeeded in walking across the carriageway i.e. from footpath to footpath or along the carriageway in the same direction as the traffic flow . |
| 8 | Less enlightening is the thought behind the pacing of the ornamentation in the Op. 1 No. 7 Grave which , while succeeding in pointing up the larger ( almost Schenkerian ) structure of the movement , is ( to my ears ) at odds with the serenely poised Affekt Corelli seemingly envisaged . |