Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over and over she asked the questions and became so demented by them that , though she trembled with indignation , she once more went into the Casa Guidi and , controlling herself as best she could , asked to see her old mistress . |
| 2 | He asked to see his social services file and eventually the local authority agreed , provided the donors of information consented . |
| 3 | On the same day the Soviet Union and Hungary agreed to conduct their bilateral trade in hard currency from 1991 onwards , replacing previous barter arrangements . |
| 4 | Misunderstanding had arisen over the " Pretoria Minute " , summarising agreements reached in talks in August 1990 [ see p. 37642 ] when the ANC agreed to suspend its 30-year policy of armed struggle " and related activities " . |
| 5 | The exchange , the CFTC said , had failed to notify the agency of serious deficiencies in Stotler 's financial records as early as 1987 , failed to enforce its own capital requirements , and failed to tell the CFTC that Stotler was undercapitalised by as much as $1.1m between October 1989 and April 1990 . |
| 6 | Although I was still barely into my teens when I was spending this time with Maureen tending sick birds , I learned a lot about general care and identification — even if we failed to spot our Russian defector . |
| 7 | During the days , the various sections met to conduct their own meetings , hearing papers from both eminent and unknown men of science . |
| 8 | That the UFC so clearly mistrusted publication data has been discussed earlier , but they failed to support their preferred method of assessment — peer review — with any objective measures or guidelines . |
| 9 | ‘ Let's say we agreed to go our separate ways . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We agreed to go our own ways a year ago . |
| 11 | Once the war was over , however , the diversity of the Nationalist camp resurfaced , as each group sought to promote its own cause . |
| 12 | Doctors failed to diagnose her fractured skull and sent her back to Turner Village with a note saying she should be kept under observation and a message to return if her condition changed . |
| 13 | Although well able to acclimatise to most aquarium conditions most Rasboras will reward any efforts made to accommodate their particular requirements . |
| 14 | The split within the FIS deepened as a faction led by Hachemi Sahnouni and Said Guechi sought to sustain its existing dialogue with the government . |
| 15 | These years were more a time of disturbance within the Church as Archbishop Theodore sought to reorganize its diocesan structure . |
| 16 | Suez was the watershed between our imperial past and our offshore island future : before Suez we sought to restore our declining power ; after Suez we shed our self-imposed colonial responsibilities as fast as we could reasonably do so . |
| 17 | Both Japan and Germany agreed to increase their financial assistance to help defray the costs of the Gulf war . |
| 18 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 19 | An ad hoc Committee of the Select Committee carried out an inquiry into Staffing of Community Institutions and produced a report which received little public attention but had considerable long-term influence on the way in which the Community Institutions recruited and transferred its staff and on how the United Kingdom sought to obtain its proper share of senior posts . |
| 20 | Her eyes blazed back at him as she fought to contain her inner excitement . |
| 21 | Most recently , second phase schools were sent question and pupil answer sheets as before but asked to provide their own apparatus from a detailed list supplied along with administration instructions by NFER . |
| 22 | And during the war , while the Party failed to increase its own popularity , Hitler could benefit as the focus of a widespread consensus between 1939 and 1941 among the vast majority of the population about the successful course of the war and the favourable prospects for an early and glorious peace . |
| 23 | She started to come again as he tried to slide his whole hand deep into her soaked vagina . |
| 24 | The most militant and politically conscious trade was that of metal workers and the government 's commitment to massive military expenditure promised to sustain its rapid growth . |
| 25 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 26 | I 'm very sorry to have to tell you this — but Mrs Kemp tried to kill herself this afternoon . ’ |
| 27 | Both men were bound over to keep the peace , but the incident was the beginning of a long history of misbehaviour which was to drive a wedge between Gallacher and the unfortunate clubs who tried to tame his wayward spirit . |
| 28 | As ECOMOG tried to continue its peacekeeping role , it was increasingly drawn into a de facto alliance with Johnson 's forces . |
| 29 | Meredith tried to gather her confused thoughts together . |
| 30 | Still , if it helped to restore his own estimation of himself , let him think otherwise . |