Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 2 | They asked to see some . |
| 3 | The newspaper asked to see any responsible official — none was available . |
| 4 | They convened that day , but failed to issue any resolution until late on Aug. 3 . |
| 5 | The Convention , partly drawing on United Kingdom bilateral conventions , sought to harmonise these different concepts by providing a procedural device acceptable to all systems . |
| 6 | She agreed to attend this club the next week with her friend . |
| 7 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 8 | He told the King that he would prefer MacDonald to remain in office in order to carry out the necessary programme of economies ; but that if he failed to carry enough of his colleagues with him , then the best alternative would be for MacDonald to head a National Government containing members of all three parties . |
| 9 | The Seya-Namioka type monochromator contains an anastigmatic concave diffraction grating and line spectra produced using this monochromator do not exhibit the characteristic shoulder on the side of each peak that is caused by the coma-type aberration . |
| 10 | A map of total basement inversion produced using this method ( Fig. 8 ) shows the following features : |
| 11 | The deadweight loss to consumers from lower output and higher prices is measured by the triangle A , but society gains because output is now p produced using less resources . |
| 12 | But Kampuchea failed to acquire this status . |
| 13 | EVER since the new Booker shortlist failed to include some of this year 's most frenetically over-promoted stars ( thereby affording the rest of the authorial population a good smirk ) the media have been publicly soul-searching about hype . |
| 14 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 15 | I failed to arrange any stereotypical symbol of masculinity in the porch where all visitors would see it instantly : a pair of size ten wellingtons , a cricket fixture list , a rifle perhaps . |
| 16 | You got to go this Sunday ? |
| 17 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 18 | ‘ I got hassle all the way through school because I had the wrong haircut and would n't wear uniform and I was just annoying and disruptive . |
| 19 | That skeleton ‘ CONTAINS ’ itself so that it can be retrieved by its own creator and expanded to include all its other constituent members . |
| 20 | At the same time it was made illegal for anyone who was not fully medically qualified and registered to treat these diseases . |
| 21 | It says Glaxo failed to spot this in its animal studies . |
| 22 | Involvement of endogenous opioids and their receptors in the regulation of colonic transit was proposed by Kreek but further investigation failed to confirm this . |
| 23 | In return for the support of the nominally social democratic National Progressive Revolutionary Party ( Panpra ) , which commanded a key block of votes in the Chamber , Bazin gave the party two Cabinet posts and agreed to restore all locally elected officials to office , including Evans Paul , an outspoken critic of the military and the FNCD mayor of Port-au Prince . |
| 24 | Indeed titles are everywhere in China today , with little trace of the fact that the Cultural Revolution sought to banish such indicators of rank and position . |
| 25 | I expected to see all kind of things you know |
| 26 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 27 | He half expected to see some naked tourist in the corner , bound and gagged . |
| 28 | An unfinished coffin on black tressels , which stood in the middle of the shop , looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him , every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object : from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head , to drive him mad with terror . |
| 29 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 30 | they got to see that . |