Sentence examples for i failed to put from inspiring English sources

EllaEllaEllaLa only picked it up "because a friend guilted me into it after I failed to put money in her bucket at the end of a free poetry night", but found Walker's poems "compelling on [the] page".

"But I failed to put some words and sentences of Dr. Childer's [sic] into quotation marks," Ambrose said.

At the time of the Profumo business, I'd been so unworldly that I'd failed to put two and two together to recognise Johnny's role in the affair.

At the time of the Profumo business, I'd been so unworldly that I'd failed to put two and two together to recognize Johnny's role in the affair.

If I'm 15 years into a 30-year mortgage, you wouldn't say that I have "failed to put enough aside".

(In Davis, California, whose municipal emblem is an old-fashioned big-wheel bicycle, I once failed to put my foot on the ground at a stop sign; a minute later, a police officer on a bicycle was beside me, softly blowing a whistle. The fine was twenty-seven bucks — today it would be a hundred thirty-four).

MR. ROMNEY: I indicated — I indicated that you failed to put in place a status of forces agreement at the end of the conflict that — MR. SCHIEFFER: Governor — PRESIDENT OBAMA: Governor, here's — here's one thing — here's one thing — here's one thing I've learned as commander in chief.

But I am 80 to 90percentt critical because I think they've failed to put in place the long-term policies that are needed not only to protect Americans, but also to make the world a safer place.

I was amazed Paxman failed to put that to me.

I explain how a friend failed to put a £20 bet on the Midlands club winning the Premier League at the start of the season.

In each case, I have footnoted the passage in question, but failed to put some words and sentences into quotation marks.