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Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1	And reluctantly MacArthur agreed to come and talk to the president .
2	During their talks Gayoom and Shekhar agreed to review and upgrade the 1981 India-Maldives trade agreement .
3	David agreed to go and ended up liking it .
4	Andy agreed to go and help set up and Bob likewise .
5	What particularly concerned me was their feeling that Balbinder seemed to understand and respond better in Punjabi .
6	Mrs Travers seemed to think that said it all .
7	Most reviewers were distracted by the ‘ satires ’ of the title , written earlier and in a very different mood , which Hardy came to regret as injuring ‘ the others that I cared most about ’ .
8	When Dot began to stumble and fall over with tiredness , Gloria gathered her up and carried her too .
9	Dickens ' reading of the English Reformation held sway for nearly two decades , but in the early 1980s Christopher Haigh and Jack Scarisbrick began to challenge and revise his interpretation of events .
10	‘ But surely , not now ! ’ thought Creggan as , to his astonishment , Woil began to peck and ferret among the rubbish in the bin , ignoring the approaching man altogether .
11	So in 1973 Andy decided to try and qualify for the Open at Royal Troon — and it was here that an incident occurred that changed his career .
12	At Crécy , in the English-held County of Ponthieu , Edward decided to stand and fight .
13	In the 42nd minute , McManaman appeared to stumble and lose control .
14	Evan continued to lecture and lead students to locations in the mountains right into his eighties .
15	One is forced to ask what OSF had to gain and wonders if it was n't some kind of supralegal manoeuvre to put pressure on Addamax and Sun because they 've got something on the OSF contingent .
16	While she was gone Johnny continued to smoke and to sip his drink .
17	Christopher Ray began to choke and turn blue after the candy-coated ball lodged in his voice box .
18	Christopher Ray began to choke and turn blue after the candy-coated ball lodged in his voice box .
19	Pc Masheder began to choke and told his attacker , ‘ Let go .
20	It is that real-life drama that Singleton decided to explore and recreate on film .
21	The young stars were all over the newspapers and fan magazines , and Nicholson loved to read and hear about their adventures .
22	The Somme dragged on through July , a futile and terrible battle of attrition that cost hundreds of thousands of lives , through Aubers Ridge , Delville Wood , where the Cameronians had a section of trench they called Buchanan Street , and into a dreadful September , when Haig decided to try and break through on the Somme with a secret weapon , the tank .
23	Hope flicked to alert and took in the scene : five other parties , all yielding the centre to the couple who occupied it with proprietorial ease ; several guides being consulted , some read from aloud , everywhere the men pointing , the indies dipping their heads to listen or lifting them to question , with seeming humility , the words of the scholars and their translators .
24	Ireland had to watch and suffer .
25	He just rode beside her , saying nothing else , and Maggie had to speak or burst into stormy tears .
26	Her husband died in 1909 but Mary Sumner continued to write and speak for the Mothers ' Union , taking a keen interest in all that was being done .
27	Ireland continued to improve and produced a good profit .
28	After Wilde 's release in 1897 and his exile to France , Ross continued to befriend and support him , and to act as intermediary between Wilde and his estranged wife and her advisers .
29	‘ The bricks arrived filthy black and Graeme had to scrub and wash every single one . ’
30	Ruth wanted to turn and plunge away , to strike out blindly through the water ; but Adam kept hold of her , and she knew the coast here was treacherous — even at full tide there were currents that could sweep you out to sea .