Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 2 | Nell digested the startling fact and tried to come to terms with the idea of this creature ever being a ship 's mascot . |
| 3 | As Mrs Pratley , 42 , tried to come to terms with her husband Brian 's death , a court official phoned to tell her she was out on the streets . |
| 4 | As the NCF tried to come to terms with the fact that most of its supporters were opting for the Home Office scheme , bitter arguments broke out . |
| 5 | While a crushed Roward tried to come to terms with the fact that he would be out of a job after the Hong Kong Sevens for Simpkin it was a goal realised after four long years in the territory as its technical director . |
| 6 | In the aftermath of Mountbatten 's murder in August 1979 , Charles 's friendship with Lady Amanda developed and he spent several weekends in her company as they tried to come to terms with their loss . |
| 7 | Staring blankly after Leo , Hilary tried to come to terms with what had happened . |
| 8 | Discussing the situation after morning surgery , Joanna , Helen and Sophie tried to come to terms with the way things were working out . |
| 9 | She sat pondering while Sophie tried to come to terms with Robert 's seemingly incomprehensible plan . |
| 10 | It would also improve upon January 's brutal monetary reform , which tried to deal with savings by confiscating some of them : the new plan would raise interest rates to encourage consumers to leave their money in the bank . |
| 11 | Fiona tried to negotiate about wages in lieu of notice . |
| 12 | Erm , Age Concern have recognized that , and wish to move in that direction , although quite clearly , as far as the existing staff are concerned , in the initial move there were certain erm , reservations and wishes and er , and uncertainties which they tried to address in discussions with us and in this paper . |
| 13 | At Hall Rise , a radio/cassette player , worth £120 , was taken and thieves tried to get into vehicles in Blott Rise , Town End Field and Sauls Avenue . |
| 14 | Wrapped in the warm yellow glow of the wine , Rincewind tried to think of inn-sewer-ants in Circle Sea terms . |
| 15 | Thieves tried to break through shutters on a store in Battle Hill , Wallsend . |
| 16 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 17 | Rabin signed after receiving a letter from PLO chairman Yasser Arafat who recognised the right of Israel to exist , renounced violence and promised to push through amendments to parts of the PLO charter offensive to Israel . |
| 18 | Bearings may thus be chosen and inserted to conform to changes in shaft diameter , bearing length for declared loads and speeds , etc . |
| 19 | However , he never seemed to object to members of his staff who had succumbed to the pleasures of the weed and smoked like chimney-pots . |
| 20 | Clearly Marty was a back number now ; Lori seemed to go through men like a knife through butter . |
| 21 | I think it must have been out of doors , because what I recall most is the way she seemed to dwindle on planes of blue . ’ |
| 22 | As she endeavoured to come to terms with the realities of her marriage and royal life , there were moments in those early years when Diana sensed that she actually could cope and could make a positive contribution to the royal family and the wider nation . |
| 23 | Mr Malik seemed to specialize in bits of things . |
| 24 | The world seemed to consist of spongers like Marc , supporters like Christopher , and victims like Francis . |
| 25 | A continuing military buildup and updating of equipment , especially in the development of the Navy and Air Force , seemed to point to ambitions in the region beyond immediate land borders . |
| 26 | Well as you know , in nineteen eighty one , there were there were troubles all over the country , which seemed to start from problems in Brixton . |
| 27 | It came to rest with corpses of slow woolly mammoths frozen deep inside , it lay on the bones of sabre-toothed tigers . |
| 28 | We had observed that older people in the area seemed to die like flies in the winter from heart attacks and cold-related illnesses and we were confident that it was the inside of our houses that were killing them , not the outside . |
| 29 | As regards the world and the planets , the Earth was still the centre of the Universe , with the planets fixed on transparent spheres rotating , so that the planets seemed to move in circles round the Earth . |
| 30 | Dependent on governmental funding and reluctant to lose establishment goodwill , these groups often came to rely on governments with extremely negative attitudes to homosexuality . |