Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 2 | Although the differences between the two sides remained too great for there to be any substantial agreement upon the outlined proposals , the Prime Ministers agreed to proceed with the second round of scheduled discussions in Pyongyang ( North Korea ) on Oct. 16-19 . |
| 3 | Glass had his first contact with non-Western music in Morocco where he became fascinated by the geometric repetitions of Islamic art . |
| 4 | AT LEAST two people were killed and 80 injured when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London last night in a suspected IRA attack timed to detract from the Tory General Election victory celebrations . |
| 5 | Some 171 full members and 107 alternate members ( with 300 other sundry officials looking on ) met to agree on the new ‘ proposals for the ten-year programme ( 1991–2000 ) and eighth five-year plan ( 1991–95 ) ’ . |
| 6 | But they also wanted a lift into town and we agreed to go to the Hard Rock Café in Honolulu together that night . |
| 7 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 8 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 9 | But that 's about all the world 's media , camped outside his house in Park Road in Abingdon , got to see of the retired bank manager . |
| 10 | The days and nights that followed this procession became filled with the ghostly rhythms of the Ma'badong dance a cumulative mantric tone intended to induce altered states , which most successfully we found , interfered with our capacity to keep a grip on the job of filming . |
| 11 | A similar campaign finance bill ( including the honoraria ban and limitation on outside income ) was passed by the Senate in 1990 but was lost at the end of the congressional session when the two Houses failed to agree upon the final form of the legislation . |
| 12 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 13 | The glass of wine went quickly to each head , for Alix 's family was teetotal , and Liz 's alcohol consumption to that date comprised perhaps three glasses of brown sherry and one ( celebrating her A levels with her teacher ) of Liebfraumilch : Esther seemed better connected with drink as with friends , but even she became confiding under the mild influence . |
| 14 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 15 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 16 | Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 . |
| 17 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 18 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 19 | Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one . |
| 20 | A working group which was debating ways of running a common staff , increasingly became dominated by the apparent overmanning of both papers . |
| 21 | Apart from generalities relating to balanced inclined planes , one patent sought to protect details of the lift as a whole ; the second sought to protect the device of gradually reducing the gradient of the upper end of the incline to balance the apparent loss in weight of the descending tank as it became immersed at the lower level . |
| 22 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 23 | It is also worth noting that , as the analysts became immersed in the detailed examination , there was a tendency to forget that this was still part of the systems thinking stage , and that the models , activities and related information needs were those that were desirable in systems terms , and not did not necessarily reflect the real situation . |
| 24 | Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax . |
| 25 | They agreed to concentrate on the under-age international sides and to the inauguration of a development squad . |
| 26 | The child climbed out of the cab and became caught in the unguarded pto of the attached implement . |
| 27 | An objector , who had not given the notice required by the rule , was not allowed to oppose confirmation when he sought to appear before the confirming authority , and the licence was confirmed . |
| 28 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 29 | The couple agreed to continue going out socially together , and the therapist agreed to write to the local housing department to back up their application for council accommodation . |
| 30 | Bodies crushed and absorbed , Tallis-Holly herself became trapped in the quivering , silent forest that filled the stone place . |