Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 2 | They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 . |
| 3 | She agreed to attend this club the next week with her friend . |
| 4 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 5 | The Seya-Namioka type monochromator contains an anastigmatic concave diffraction grating and line spectra produced using this monochromator do not exhibit the characteristic shoulder on the side of each peak that is caused by the coma-type aberration . |
| 6 | A map of total basement inversion produced using this method ( Fig. 8 ) shows the following features : |
| 7 | The deadweight loss to consumers from lower output and higher prices is measured by the triangle A , but society gains because output is now p produced using less resources . |
| 8 | But Kampuchea failed to acquire this status . |
| 9 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 10 | You got to go this Sunday ? |
| 11 | At the same time it was made illegal for anyone who was not fully medically qualified and registered to treat these diseases . |
| 12 | Indeed titles are everywhere in China today , with little trace of the fact that the Cultural Revolution sought to banish such indicators of rank and position . |
| 13 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 14 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 15 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 16 | She asked to borrow some shears . |
| 17 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 18 | Mr. Collins sought to accommodate such cases by recognising them as an exception to his suggested rule . |
| 19 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 20 | The ex-Croydon Corporation E/1s were still in sound condition and lived to see another day ; they were transferred to New Cross depôt . |
| 21 | But the science-related ministries and agencies failed to classify such items as ‘ new social infrastructure ’ outside the present budgetary system . |
| 22 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 23 | With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly . |
| 24 | ‘ So I auditioned for them and they auditioned for me and we got to like each other and at that stage we did n't give a shit what each other looked like , we just realised that there was talent there . |
| 25 | If the aeroplane broke up in the air or the engine fell apart then the designers could be at fault ; if navigation aids were not working properly a radio engineer could be responsible , or even the Director of Civil Aviation who failed to provide enough money for the maintenance of the aids . |
| 26 | Bickering began on the US side yesterday , with State Department officials angrily protesting to the White House that the Pentagon failed to provide any security for the US embassy in Panama . |
| 27 | Mr Justice Hobhouse dismissed B's claim , saying that the statutory intention behind the Regulations , stated in s 203 , TA 1988 , was that income tax should be deducted by a person making any payment of or on account of any income assessable to tax under Sch E. There was a statutory obligation to deduct tax unless either the Regulations showed that there was to be no such obligation or they failed to provide any machinery whereby the payer could make a deduction . |
| 28 | In a state where autocracy sought to monopolise all forms of political life no political party could really exist . |
| 29 | One person in 10 failed to spell any word correctly according to the Gallup survey of 1,000 adults . |
| 30 | In the absence of appropriate provision by other bodies , the WEA had grown as a social movement which sought to provide those opportunities for people , denied access to further and higher education , either through its own efforts or cooperatively , but without patronage , in partnership with the universities , LEAs , and other agencies . |