Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the daughter of one mother who drank asked to go to live with her grandmother , in her well-ordered ‘ nice ’ home : ‘ but they would n't let me go . |
| 2 | We long ago ceased to enjoy hanging as a public spectacle . |
| 3 | In a radio address on 24 May , for example , he announced three major categories of reform , which he expected to see accomplished before the end of the year : reform of the civil service ; nationalization of the coal , electricity , and banking industries ; and a plan to boost France 's birthrate . |
| 4 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 5 | When the Quoc Dan Dang was formed two years ago we joined secretly and agreed to continue spying on Devraux . |
| 6 | Mr Ball gave details of the development of ECTA , and agreed to continue to look after Institute interests and to try to obtain uniformity . |
| 7 | Arrest warrants were issued for two former Central Bank officials implicated in the scandal after they failed to appear to testify before the Senate . |
| 8 | Releasing on Nov. 15 its budget figures for 1991 , the government stated that it planned to increase spending by 22 per cent to the equivalent of US$499,000,000 and would face a fiscal deficit of $150,000,000 , only $91,000,000 of which could be expected to be covered by future loans . |
| 9 | The design used got started in 1988 and took five years to get a full multi-processor in such a small package . |
| 10 | His phenomenally successful reign , in the wake of his outstanding achievements as a player , meant this great club Bill Shankley created became known as Kenny 's kingdom . |
| 11 | He stopped eating to grin at me . |
| 12 | A chartered surveyor , he talked himself into the chairmanship of the Conservative backbench environment committee and in 1987 he tried to curb gazumping by a system of forfeits . |
| 13 | MITI helped to promote streamlining in the parts industries over the years 1956 to 1966 , aimed at modernization and rationalization of the number of suppliers . |
| 14 | The experimental apparatus they used has come to be called a Skinner box . |
| 15 | ‘ I worry as well — what if they stopped wanting to work with me ? ’ |
| 16 | Spike walked on top of the ants whilst Bernice tried to avoid stepping on them . |
| 17 | Delaney tried to avoid looking at Doctor Nell Anderson as he went forward to the flight deck . |
| 18 | Angelica tried to avoid looking at it , but like the village children who gathered on the bank she found herself almost fascinated . |
| 19 | The poet 's wife turned away her head and tried to grow absorbed in their child . |
| 20 | Only about 70% of households approached agreed to participate in the Family Expenditure Survey . |
| 21 | In an apparent effort to improve relations with the United States , the government of North Korea on June 24 returned the remains of 11 US servicemen killed in the 1950-53 Korean War , and promised to help search for a further 9,000 allied military personnel still officially listed as missing in action [ see also p. 37456 ] . |
| 22 | Is n't she the one you tried to persuade to come to our art class ? ’ |
| 23 | They proposed getting rid of the philistines found along Wardour Street , London 's Film Row , wiping out the middle-class personnel who had been creeping into the director 's chair , or introducing a bunch of amateurs into the business . |
| 24 | Lee felt jealous , lumpy , and tried to let go of the feeling as she arranged the flowers in the kitchen . |
| 25 | Sophie tried to read meaning into the noise . |
| 26 | The principal social worker involved having returned from leave , on 22 January 1992 the local authority informed all the parties by telephone that they no longer intended to oppose the father 's application . |
| 27 | Annabel was determined to get a grip on herself and do as Scott advised : remember 1965 as the year she stopped having to go to auditions and 1966 as the year in which she blossomed into a successful young New York hostess as she met Andy Warhol , Lenny Bernstein , Baby Jane Holzer , and all the other gossip-columnist fodder . |
| 28 | Ideologically sound sisters moved to hard-to-let housing in depressed urban centres and sold their properties to hotels and banks . |
| 29 | In later years , when explaining how he got to Cape Town , John always mentioned having appeared in one or two small parts when the ballet from the Cape came to Johannesburg . |
| 30 | At the government-controlled newspaper Izvestia , the staff threatened to go on strike when their editor , who is a Kravchenko-like conservative , tried to get rid of his liberal deputy by giving him a cushy job as Madrid correspondent . |