Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used . |
| 2 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 3 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 4 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 5 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 6 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 7 | She seemed to be pushing her enormous frame closer to his , as he tried to extricate himself from the small stuffy room which had begun to give him claustrophobia . |
| 8 | In a fury of hatred and jealousy he thrashed his stick about Kemp 's head while Kemp himself tried to extricate himself from the twisted sheets , to get out of the bed , and to defend himself — but he did n't make it . |
| 9 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 10 | It was just a question of Mind over Matter , I thought , and tried to steel myself against the physical effects of an increasingly rough ride . |
| 11 | Subsequently , they carried out the investigation ‘ Maxbox ’ , which involved deciding which of the open boxes that can be made from a 12 cm x 12 cm square of paper by cutting squares from the corners and folding into a lidless cuboid ‘ held the most ’ . |
| 12 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 13 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 14 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 15 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 16 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 17 | She had not , Franca found on opening it , ventured to hang anything inside the long wardrobe which stretched the length of the big bedroom . |
| 18 | He tried to distance himself from the physical reality of death by thinking about the identity of the person who had caused it . |
| 19 | Robyn headed the jeep up the by now familiar track to the barn and tried to get herself into the right frame of mind . |
| 20 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 21 | He tried to balance it with the thin box as the base . |
| 22 | Dr Rossdale said he tried to wean her off the sleeping tablets . |
| 23 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 24 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 25 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 26 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 27 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 28 | She 'd treated herself to the new dress , from the boutique recommended by Anneliese . |
| 29 | You 'd given yourself to the highest bidder — ’ |
| 30 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |