Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adj] " 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 | And I think that was on the basis that we were insisting that everybody visited the local F E college or you know sort of Yorkshire , Scarborough , Harrogate got got their irregular updatings and S and Selby when whatever . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | During the days , the various sections met to conduct their own meetings , hearing papers from both eminent and unknown men of science . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Let's say we agreed to go our separate ways . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We agreed to go our own ways a year ago . |
| 12 | Does he regret now avoiding the operation all those years ago , before he failed to scale his own Olympian heights in Rome and Seoul ? |
| 13 | Once the war was over , however , the diversity of the Nationalist camp resurfaced , as each group sought to promote its own cause . |
| 14 | From what I had heard in advance , I expected to see nothing much more than four or five students on the course drinking regulated amounts of alcohol and then being subjected to a variety of tests that would show how their motor skills deteriorated . |
| 15 | No one ever got to see it complete , except me and Terry of course . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although well able to acclimatise to most aquarium conditions most Rasboras will reward any efforts made to accommodate their particular requirements . |
| 18 | And they says as soon as you see one coming you sa say can I got make your bloody mind up which one do you want ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These years were more a time of disturbance within the Church as Archbishop Theodore sought to reorganize its diocesan structure . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ten years later he produced singlehanded his monumental theory of gravity — the general theory of relativity . |
| 23 | PLO executive committee member Yasser Abed-Rabbo said the organisation , which has held secret negotiations with Israel in Norway , planned to gather its 100-strong Central Council to discuss the agreement . |
| 24 | Corbett held her close and fought to hide his own deep unease . |
| 25 | Expertly his hands began their slow , feverish exploration of her bare skin , tormenting as they sought to inflame her further and further so that she forgot everything but the pleasure he could bring her . |
| 26 | Both Japan and Germany agreed to increase their financial assistance to help defray the costs of the Gulf war . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Her eyes blazed back at him as she fought to contain her inner excitement . |
| 30 | His tone suggested that he thought otherwise , and served to confirm her earlier instinctive feeling that he expected to find her flawed , contemptible . |