Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 2 | 4 subjects failed to attend for assessment at 4 weeks although they remained in the study . |
| 3 | You failed to fall in love with me — |
| 4 | What you got to go into town for ? |
| 5 | I think you know it 's hard you g got to go with Leicester at the moment because they 're in the pole position and I have for my money been the better side but er Forest do look capable of snatching an equalizer . |
| 6 | The Oxford Regional Health Authority introduced ‘ the 80/20 rule , ’ under which fundholders agreed to contract for 80% of their hospital services budget in the first year to go to the same hospitals as in the preparatory year , leaving them free to move the remaining 20% if they so wished . |
| 7 | A government that sought to remain in office after losing a vote of confidence in the House of Commons would find its position politically intenable : it would lack the political authority to govern . |
| 8 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 9 | On Saturday , the four ‘ nuclear ’ powers — Russia , Ukraine , Belarus and Kazakhstan — failed to agree on means of ratifying Start , the US-Soviet agreement to slash strategic nuclear weapons . |
| 10 | An emergency meeting of the three coalition partners on Sept. 6 failed to agree on means of stimulating a recovery in the east . |
| 11 | The £172,000 prop failed to appear for Leeds on Sunday , and yesterday confirmed his disenchantment at Headingley by asking for a move . |
| 12 | This change has been recommended by the Legal Services Ombudsman , and will require a change in the law , expected to come into force at the beginning of 1994 . |
| 13 | Mahmoud had a case that morning in the Mixed Tribunals and Owen wanted to send a letter to England so they agreed to meet at noon at the Post Office . |
| 14 | Ian Evans first came to the Palace in September 1974 as The Eagles sought to adjust to life in the 3rd Division , after plummeting straight through Division Two in 1973–74 , and he quickly established himself as a favourite among the fans at Selhurst Park with his wholehearted displays at the centre of our defence . |
| 15 | Mr Kidd said he already had anecdotal evidence of US conventions pulling out of the UK : ‘ One conference of surgeons and one group of insurance sales staff , who planned to come to London for two weeks , could not find a hotel they were happy with . ’ |
| 16 | Twenty-seven year old Middlesbrough born midfielder Paul Lemon , who has played over 100 games for Sunderland , agreed to come to Derry on a short term contract and makes his League of Ireland debut this afternoon . |
| 17 | On Monday , 8 September , Coleman got to work with Asmar in his office at Karintina . |
| 18 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 19 | Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . |
| 20 | One of the most prominent clumps which Tony Wedd found to fall into alignment with others was Gill 's Lap , high on Ashdown Forest . |
| 21 | Rekhi says Novell tried to work with SCO on Unix back in 1990 , and later approached Sun to help with its Intel-Unix effort , but both efforts came to nothing . |
| 22 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 23 | Nell digested the startling fact and tried to come to terms with the idea of this creature ever being a ship 's mascot . |
| 24 | As Mrs Pratley , 42 , tried to come to terms with her husband Brian 's death , a court official phoned to tell her she was out on the streets . |
| 25 | As the NCF tried to come to terms with the fact that most of its supporters were opting for the Home Office scheme , bitter arguments broke out . |
| 26 | While a crushed Roward tried to come to terms with the fact that he would be out of a job after the Hong Kong Sevens for Simpkin it was a goal realised after four long years in the territory as its technical director . |
| 27 | In the aftermath of Mountbatten 's murder in August 1979 , Charles 's friendship with Lady Amanda developed and he spent several weekends in her company as they tried to come to terms with their loss . |
| 28 | Staring blankly after Leo , Hilary tried to come to terms with what had happened . |
| 29 | Discussing the situation after morning surgery , Joanna , Helen and Sophie tried to come to terms with the way things were working out . |
| 30 | She sat pondering while Sophie tried to come to terms with Robert 's seemingly incomprehensible plan . |