Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , hell-oh , ’ said a large man as she tried to slip by him with an ‘ excuse-me ’ . |
| 2 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 3 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 4 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 5 | He tried to walk past me down the stairs , but I stopped him . |
| 6 | I let myself in , and stopped to look around me in the small outer room . |
| 7 | And when I had put these into a plastic bag that I found lying beside them under the dressing-table , I put my hand on her shoulder , about to shake her . |
| 8 | In the 1960s and 1970s the Standing Conference on University Entrance tried to deal with it on a large-scale basis but repeated efforts to bring about improvements of connection amounted to little . |
| 9 | We tried to reason with them about the bathroom . |
| 10 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
| 11 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 12 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 13 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 14 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 15 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 16 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 17 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 18 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
| 19 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 20 | He seemed to go from her for a moment , then he recollected where he was . |
| 21 | To her it was quite perfect , a light red costume made of silk , which seemed to cling to her like a second skin . |
| 22 | Instead of being cosily tucked up in her bunk near the bar , she surprisingly came walking towards me from the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's , her diamonds lighting small bright fires with every step . |
| 23 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 24 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
| 25 | I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen . |
| 26 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 27 | He seemed to stand over her for an eternity , about to strike . |
| 28 | I knew she was registered at Essex , I knew she was basically dishonest , a boozer , a feminist and — from the brief glimpse I 'd caught of her in the Mimosa Club — no featherweight . |
| 29 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 30 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |