Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 2 | The team played better but failed to profit from their many spells of domination . |
| 3 | As a consequence they were ‘ extracted ’ from their culture and failed to communicate to their own people . |
| 4 | She was still looking admiringly around when , ‘ I 'm so happy that you agreed to dine with me this evening , ’ Lubor stated warmly . |
| 5 | The arrangement ended on 1 January when the Soviet Union ceased trading with its former allies on a convertible rouble basis . |
| 6 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 7 | Certainly both the account in the Office of his later career and the remarks he let drop in his own writings point to a friction in his situation which ultimately led him to leave the Daltons to seek a quiet place elsewhere . |
| 8 | I even tried to read to you that night at the end of last September . |
| 9 | He wished he could be alone , he tried to say with his own look . |
| 10 | She looked at Fergus 's dim reflection , distorted in the glass , then tried to re-focus on her own image . |
| 11 | Statistical analysis was performed using the χ 2 test with or without Yates ' correction , the Fisher 's exact test and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test , each applied according to its own indications . |
| 12 | Their manner of life and lack of learning were denounced by reformers ; but they lived according to their own customs and traditions , and there is little evidence that they were more commonly celibate , or less ignorant , in 1200 than in 1000 . |
| 13 | India-May had that glazed look , as if she was describing a miracle , a miracle that she 'd witnessed with her own eyes . |
| 14 | The story goes that my great-great-grandfather came to see with his own eyes the destruction of their great city and that , seeing the sign , he smiled , appreciating the play on words . |
| 15 | He had got Sir Geoffrey 's note when he 'd looked into his own office at lunchtime . |
| 16 | So many years had passed since she 'd sat with her own grandmother in just this sort of quiet companionship . |
| 17 | Ian was someone who 'd succeeded through his own efforts . |
| 18 | Little as he wanted to do anything about it , the boy 's babyishness , his Fauntleroy air , embarrassed and distantly annoyed him : it seemed to reflect on his own manhood . |
| 19 | Fen for the most part seemed absorbed in his own thoughts , which , judging by his expression , did not please him . |
| 20 | Although Windows 3.1 came supplied with its own font manager in the shape of TrueType , only a few faces are supplied and this may be a problem for anyone running wordprocessing and desktop publishing software , particularly if the software does not supply any extra faces . |
| 21 | Well I thought I 'd got over it this week and Foxy and you were really nice to me and everyone was , you know ? |
| 22 | His address book ; the clothes he 'd bought with his own money as opposed to hers ; his spare spectacles ; his cigarettes . |
| 23 | As the old pensioner listened to the song , which was now accompanied by the ringing of bells , Fleury saw an expression of tender devotion come over his lined face , and he , too , thought , as the Collector had thought some weeks earlier in the tiger house , what a lot of Indian life was unavailable to the Englishman who came equipped with his own religion and habits . |
| 24 | That , however , does not excuse the considerable part United played in their own downfall . |
| 25 | And the more he succumbed to the allure of his own Führer cult and came to believe in his own myth , the more his judgement became impaired by faith in his own infallibility , losing his grip on what could and could not be achieved solely through the strength of his ‘ will ’ . |
| 26 | A policeman came to call on me that Thursday evening , after Angy 's body had been found , asking what time the class ended and where I went afterwards … that sort of thing . |
| 27 | Suddenly afraid of what she had unleashed , Shae backed away , barely realising she 'd stepped into her own room till he closed the door behind them . |
| 28 | How low he 'd sunk through his own choosing . |
| 29 | Wycliffe was fascinated by the view framed by the window ; a vast expanse of sea which seemed to shine in its own right with almost dazzling brilliance . |
| 30 | But as Edward exhausted his foreign creditors he came to rely on his own nobles and the London merchants for loans , and this necessitated a greater sensitivity to the political views and interests of his creditors than his predecessors had had to show . |