Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs were surprised when I disturbed them in the middle of the night and they chased in their runs when I left again , strained to see me departing through the rain , and hear the car door opening , their bowls clanking as I threw them inside . |
| 2 | Huy tried to imagine her going through the simple ceremony with someone else , and could not . |
| 3 | She tried to imagine herself walking along the corridor , knocking on Luke 's bedroom door and saying — saying what ? |
| 4 | Then they tried to persuade me to part with the silver and everything else that had belonged to my husband . |
| 5 | He threw a bottleful of his pills into the kitchen sink and tried to get them to go down the drain with the handle of a dishmop . |
| 6 | I even tried to get him to go to the studio . |
| 7 | ‘ Ron Paget tried to get us to build on the Britches again . ’ |
| 8 | you you mounted up a certain amount of debt , you tried to get it paid by the end of the quarter . |
| 9 | At the end of 1978 , when he realized the danger that Khomeini was inflicting on the Shah from France , Marenches say he tried to have him expelled from the country . |
| 10 | So she helped Did she help with the childbirth as well ? |
| 11 | Rose , laughing , took the gloves away as he pretended to need them to wear about the house . |
| 12 | Ever since the beginning they tried to stop it getting onto the market . |
| 13 | ‘ Some bloke tried to stop us jamming in the lobby and gave us loads of attitude , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Again he tried to make it stand with the thin box as the base and once again it fell over . |
| 15 | He shouted to make himself heard above the din : " I want to see you at once , " |
| 16 | Her eyes spanned the room , once , twice , and seemed to find something threatening in the silence . |
| 17 | Bernice woke to find herself lying outside the temple . |
| 18 | The slightly fatherly attendant said he was sure she was safely asleep , as he 'd seen her returning from the washroom at the end of the car and climbing up to her bunk . |
| 19 | Rose said she 'd seen her walking in the direction of the milking sheds , and with a little nod Ellie went out into the grounds . |
| 20 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 21 | They behaved as if I 'd got something to do with the wretched man 's disappearance . |
| 22 | So , he 'd watched her go from the hotel , and then contacted Directory Enquiries from the phone-booth in the foyer . |
| 23 | I bet myself that was Sorley 's , as I 'd had him pegged as the Boy Racer type and I was glad the insurance companies were uprating them . |
| 24 | Mr Shepherd appeared in my office with my son — said he 'd found him roaming about the factory . |
| 25 | But I was n't struck by any thunderbolts or lightning flashes , and when talking about the dance afterwards in the Met Office I merely remarked to the officer on duty that I 'd met a very nice corporal and he 'd asked me to go to the Station cinema with him on Saturday . |
| 26 | he 'd asked her to go on the pill . |
| 27 | I did n't offer them more coffee , and when they 'd gone I mooched around the flat hoping to wind down . |
| 28 | The most I 'd allowed myself to see of the inside of that room during his three months at Sleet was himself half naked ruled into a margin of light . |
| 29 | When she 'd finished he sat at the kitchen table , watching her getting his tea ready , brooding . |
| 30 | So many players seemed to have nothing to do with the nations they were representing that asking them to picture their country would have been difficult enough , let alone vow anything to it . |