Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got to charge you for the call-out , ’ said the cop . |
| 2 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 4 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 5 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 6 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 7 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 8 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 9 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 10 | I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ? |
| 11 | I tried to picture him under the sheet . |
| 12 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
| 13 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 14 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 15 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 16 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
| 17 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
| 18 | One morning I arrived to find him at the supremely mundane task of " plugging muck " , standing on a manure heap , hurling steaming forkfuls on to a cart . |
| 19 | I said it looks nice as it is and I do n't know if he will or not , I forgot to ask him on the phone . |
| 20 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 21 | I forgot to play it with the tune right though . |
| 22 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
| 23 | I happened to find myself with the Commander on the gallery one afternoon : the other usual suspects were missing . |
| 24 | She 's a friend of Bertice Reading , who is working at the Prince of Wales Theatre , so I arranged to meet her at the stage door at 2 o'clock . |
| 25 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 26 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
| 27 | I decided to use it as the chance to turn my life around . |
| 28 | I decided to phone him in the evening . |
| 29 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 30 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |