Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 2 | Sarah tried to hitch herself up in the bed . |
| 3 | He tried to lever himself up in the bed . |
| 4 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 5 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 6 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 7 | I remembered — I 'd stuffed it back in the envelope with my dreams . |
| 8 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 9 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |
| 10 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 11 | His young rider , ‘ Wendy ’ , saddled him up , and started to trot him around in the practice ring with a number of other horses . |
| 12 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | To the community at Canterbury he was a saintly but somewhat ineffective archbishop , who had let them down in the matter of the primacy of their church . |
| 14 | He did not know if she had written it down in the letter , or if the cake was to be his punishment for all the bad things he had done . |
| 15 | But I just said put them down in the book . |
| 16 | The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ? |
| 17 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 18 | They had talked it over in the Rose . |
| 19 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 20 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 21 | After Gary Blissett had pulled one back in the 78th minute , substitute Marcus Gayle missed a great chance four minutes from the final whistle to level it . |
| 22 | After Ronnie McCullough had pulled one back in the opening minute of the second half , the Comrades dominated until the finish without being able to find an equaliser . |
| 23 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 24 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 25 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 26 | Over twenty years the two great polo dynasties had battled it out in the Argentine Open at Palermo . |
| 27 | The two had battled it out in the scoring and until the final vote from the Maltese jury , filing later than scheduled because of a technical fault , either could have won . |
| 28 | I naturally assumed you were using your dust-pan and had left it out in the hall . |
| 29 | They had taken him down in the lift and he had stood there looking at her face , peaceful and still . |
| 30 | I had to wring them out in the mornings . |