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Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford .
5	But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford .
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	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
9	Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley .
10	His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton .
11	‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’
12	They tried to eject him from the podium .
13	‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head .
14	As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm .
15	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 .
16	Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move .
17	Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot .
18	He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather .
19	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 .
20	He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door .
21	As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle .
22	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 .
23	He tried to find it after the war .
24	She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns .
25	He tried to flog it on the bus
26	As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark .
27	I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me .
28	Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him .
29	Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel .
30	Now , when I look at the pictures of the car after the crash , with the passenger-side floor sill and roof crumpled and distorted and my seat moved forward — which helped trap me in the car — I wonder whether we chose the car on the correct criteria .