Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used . |
| 3 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 4 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 5 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 6 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 7 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 8 | In the US , for example , where the socialist party failed to establish itself as a major party after a fairly rapid growth in the first decade of this century , it has long been argued that the presidential system is a major obstacle to the development of third parties , and undoubtedly these constitutional factors have been important ; but it is clear that many other social and economic characteristics of the US have had a preponderant influence in determining the absence of a large-scale independent socialist movement or party there ( Sombart , 1906 ; Laslett and Lipset , 1974 ) . |
| 9 | By looking after its past employees , the army sought to position itself as a caring organisation which would encourage new recruits . |
| 10 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 11 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 12 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |
| 13 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 14 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 15 | The defendant then made an agreement with the plaintiffs in which ‘ in consideration that the plaintiffs , at the request of the defendant , would deliver to the defendant ’ the cargo of coal , the defendant promised to unload it at a stated rate . |
| 16 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 17 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 18 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 19 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 20 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 21 | ‘ I tried to kill myself with a drugs overdose . |
| 22 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 23 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 24 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 25 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 26 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 27 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 28 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 29 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 30 | In time , academic anthropology became less directly associated with evolutionary ideas , and it tried to establish itself as a respectable , if not conservative , branch of the social sciences . |