Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 |
6 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
7 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
8 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
9 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
10 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
11 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
12 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
13 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door . |
16 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | He tried to find it after the war . |
19 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
25 | After the appeal , Duncan McAllister resigned his Army commission while publicity surrounding Christie 's friendship with Anna Moore helped keep her in the public eye . |
26 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
27 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
28 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
29 | ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League . |
30 | Gen Morillon , after talks in Belgrade , said : ‘ President Milosevic promised to help me in the implementation of every request I have made , that is the immediate ceasefire . ’ |