Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 2 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 3 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 4 | Donated by a kind benefactor at some stage and affectionately known as " the old bomb " , it always seemed to get them to country open airs and cottage meetings but took exception to a trip to Sydney for a Congress . |
| 5 | They always had to do them on Boxing Day , so that the letters went into the first possible post after Christmas . |
| 6 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |
| 7 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 8 | The union then supported me further when I got another job and was a steward there , a branch secretary a district committee member and then on the regional committee and they also helped to put me through polytechnic and into the job that I did looking at mergers at the University of Warwick . |
| 9 | We also had to provide them with lunch at 2.30 pm . |
| 10 | She also wanted to save them from slaughter for the sum of two hundred pounds . |
| 11 | The only organisation which frankly undertook to resist it without qualification , the Catholic Church , merely isolated itself . |
| 12 | ‘ I really wanted to see you on behalf of Annabel , ’ Scott said . |
| 13 | Obviously a person who first acquired consumer goods as a businessman , and then chose to put them into consumer use for his own private uses could take advantage of this section . |
| 14 | ‘ I never meant to put you in danger when I took … it . |
| 15 | Ronnie therefore had to finish it on site , spending the best part of a week-end in the palace perfecting the pattern march and joining the last of the pieces together . |