Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bad timing is typical for Deirdre , who once tried to kill a faithless lover with an ashtray , but succeeded only in setting the hotel room on fire . |
| 2 | Leaning back in a comfortable armchair , a glass of frosted lime juice in his hand , Hawkins succeeded only in giving the impression of a man with all the time in the world . |
| 3 | Dunlop elected to punch a cross from Steve Staunton , but succeeded only in presenting the ball to Ronnie Whelan , who drilled it back past him from 18 yards . |
| 4 | When Lizzie tried to make Cinderella curtsey she succeeded only in crossing the puppet 's feet , and she started to laugh ; then , laying the puppet down , she said , ‘ But of the three , you know , I think I like Buttons ; he 's so appealing . ’ |
| 5 | No ordinary carriage , not subject to any hasty conversion to ensure its usefulness , but out of the railway factory yards of Leningrad and designed only for transporting the prisoners . |
| 6 | SPANISH golf ace Jose-Maria Olazabal grumbled yesterday after taking the lead in the Lancome Trophy in Paris with a first-round five-under-par 65 . |
| 7 | As Britain concentrated more on integrating the United States into a western defensive system , France began to see integration as a way of increasing its own influence within Europe , especially over the future of Germany . |
| 8 | That 's the challenge from the Electrical and Electronics Industries Benevolent Association , The EEIBA is the only UK charity dedicated solely to serving the needs of people associated with the electrical and electronic industries . |
| 9 | Leading pacifists were drawn to Guild Socialism , and the ILP itself moved far towards endorsing the idea of self-government in industry . |
| 10 | The company claims that these protocols can be loaded and accessed simultaneously without interrupting the LANtastic network connection . |
| 11 | The company claims that these protocols can be loaded and accessed simultaneously without interrupting the LANtastic network connection . |
| 12 | Wallace came on 2nd half instead of Whelan , and hasseled well without Scoring The Goal . |
| 13 | They trusted in God and his Law , For the same purpose , the Greeks trusted their own intelligence and initiative , were unceremoniously aggressive and contributed everywhere to disturbing the peace of the Persian Empire on which the reconstruction of Judaism depended . |
| 14 | He notes that : ‘ the Institution was built in a Quadrangle Form , having now in the centre a large lawn or grass plot surrounded by posts and chains , and that between the Buildings and these a broad Pathway had been left , partly paved with stones … used chiefly for testing the freedom from lameness of Horses sent for examination prior to purchase ; as well as for ascertaining the progress of those under treatment in the Infirmary for lameness arising from various causes . |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that when the Unionist party governed Northern Ireland it concentrated heavily on developing the roads only in the eastern part of Northern Ireland ? |
| 16 | Because of this subjects may have ignored memories of mundane situations and concentrated instead on recalling the ones which they remembered as risky . |
| 17 | ( i ) An applicant will have to have attended at least one major conference on medical negligence and one medical course for lawyers devoted specifically to enhancing the lawyers ' understanding of medicine generally in the three years prior to the application . |
| 18 | In fact , Craig 's actions contributed significantly to destabilising the situation . |
| 19 | As he noted just before finishing The Woodlanders , ‘ The ‘ simply natural ’ is interesting no longer . |
| 20 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 21 | Two years later , he joined Louis in a war against Holland , which came close to destroying the Protestant republic . |
| 22 | After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine . |
| 23 | Over the winter , breakdowns in Ulan Bator 's decrepit power supply came close to evacuating the capital and forcing people to abandon frozen buildings for traditional yurts . |
| 24 | In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months . |
| 25 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 26 | MICHAEL STICH last night came close to producing the sort of form that won him Wimbledon two years ago , to move into the semi-finals of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister came close to accusing the Chancellor of starting the inflationary spiral by an attempt to link the rate for sterling with the value of the German deutschmark . |
| 28 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
| 29 | She came close to threatening the Community with a repetition of de Gaulle 's policy of ‘ the empty chair ’ in the sixties . |
| 30 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |