Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [noun] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A suspicious customs man asked to see Melms swing his 6-iron when he arrived in Britain for a ‘ golfing holiday . ’ |
| 2 | It was Hudd , five seasons ago , who waved his flag furiously at referee Hobbs when , unsighted , he failed to spot Proby forcing his shinpad down the throat of Mossborough Sandinista 's Keith Driscoll until alerted by the enthusiastic linesman . |
| 3 | To read documents from French sources about space , and to meet officials of the CNES , is to acquire the impression that France tried to help Europe get its space act together ; but whenever the latter failed to meet the challenge , France did what it could regardless . |
| 4 | Name two products ( other than the barbecue ) designed to help people enjoy their leisure time . |
| 5 | She became a mediator between the authorities and student leaders , and on a number of occasions tried to persuade students to end their hunger strike , leave Tiananmen Square and return to campus . |
| 6 | In the culmination of a week of street unrest , the Moneda presidential palace was the scene of violent clashes on Nov. 12 when the security forces moved to disperse protesters demonstrating their support for four political prisoners critically ill in hospital after a six-week hunger strike . |
| 7 | He was the investigator in the Whitley Strieber case , and reveals that although they were friends , they have now fallen out , mainly because Strieber tried to get Hopkins to delay his book about the abduction phenomena — he though it might hurt the sales of his own book . |
| 8 | In such epidemics we tried to get people to boil their water and to eat their food hot from the rice and curry pots , but it was rare for cholera victims to recover . |
| 9 | Driving along the lane , she tried to picture Hywel parking his tractor and going into his house to be greeted by Elizabeth , and found it impossible . |
| 10 | Kaifu promised to make efforts to reduce his country 's large trade surplus with South Korea — estimated to have exceeded US$6,000 million in 1990 — but he did not commit himself to any specific measures to achieve this . |
| 11 | IN THE 1960s a mystique surrounded hallucinogenic drugs like LSD because they seemed to enable users to alter their perceptions of reality , and explore their ‘ inner minds ’ . |
| 12 | He seemed to have difficulty forming his words . |
| 13 | I learnt to make pots to keep my food in . |
| 14 | A more ambitious change sought to require complainants to present their cases orally to the magistrate , instead of through a written statement composed by an intermediary . |
| 15 | Cardiff turned to see Duvall loosening his overcoat slowly as he moved to draw level behind them as they watched the elevator doors . |
| 16 | Another group of conscripts had on May 14 occupied the national radio station but failed to persuade staff to broadcast their demands , and on May 16 they rampaged through the streets of Abidjan firing their weapons . |
| 17 | Sister was off duty , but the staff nurse , a big , auburn-haired girl with freckles , agreed to let Juliet see her mother for a few minutes . |
| 18 | It gave a degree of certainty to public sector managers in the short run , but when the tax costs began to mount governments resumed their sudden cuts — just the situation Plowden had hoped to avoid . |
| 19 | Irritated she swept away , flushed the tissues down the lavatory and returned to hear Oliver pursuing her question . |
| 20 | But shortly after the accident he began to have difficulty turning his neck to the left . |
| 21 | On May 18th Antoine Riboud , BSN 's boss , said that sales had fallen by 5.7% in the first quarter , and threatened to cut prices to defend its markets . |
| 22 | He never got one back with a check-mark , but he kept copies in his office until , in October 1986 , he started to destroy documents to cover his tracks . |
| 23 | WALL 'S : The company 's great breakthrough came when they decided to buy trikes to sell their ice-cream around the streets in the 1920s . |
| 24 | None of it worked and Barbara and Ted decided to let life takes its course . |
| 25 | To encourage the population to drink clean water the Local Government Board decided to use fountains to advertise its existence . |
| 26 | The Helsinki session , while welcoming Bosnia-Hercegovina as a member [ see also below ] , decided to allow Yugoslavia to retain its seat , while stressing that thereby it was not accepting a solution of the succession to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 27 | At a recent board meeting the ICA decided to invite Havel to become their president , a new position invented in an atmosphere of genteel frenzy . |
| 28 | Prost 's second place was never likely to be challenged as Piquet struggled to find grip form his Pirellis . |
| 29 | Wendy Twist , IHEI programme manager , calls it ‘ a user-friendly , illustrated , living document , a working took to help hoteliers develop their own working methods … |
| 30 | This set up a Civil Rights Commission empowered to assist blacks to exercise their right to vote . |