Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 5 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 6 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 7 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |
| 8 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 11 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 12 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 13 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 14 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 15 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 16 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 17 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 18 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 19 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 20 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 21 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 22 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 23 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 24 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 25 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 26 | He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door . |
| 27 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 28 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He tried to find it after the war . |