Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We got ta put them in the deep fat fryer .
2 He had been ‘ much pleased ’ with the suggestion , ‘ but was deterr 'd from improving it by the greatness of the subject …
3 especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found .
4 And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex .
5 Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old .
6 But this was the one Miss Minogue and her handlers gambled upon to turn her into a major star .
7 A BUGATTI motor boat found resting in mud in France is to be flown to its wealthy owner in California next month , 10 years after work began on restoring it at a Thames boatyard .
8 When they returned to Cochinchina the French began by treating it as a restored colony and with Cedile , the French Commissioner in the South , and Moutet in Paris both anticipating , or frustrating , the results of the promised referendum there were increasing prospects that it would be retained for French economic interests in the form of a nominally autonomous government .
9 He renegotiated the agreement over tunnel usage by the railways and succeeded in presenting it as a breakthrough .
10 OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday .
11 He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance .
12 At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property .
13 I talked about shooting ourselves in the foot and that 's another example .
14 When the US President , Eisenhower , visited Madrid on 21 December 1959 , Franco persisted in interpreting it as a sign of recognition of his rightness , not as an indication that times were changing and he would have to move with them or be left behind .
15 He had , in effect , stumbled without recognizing it into a major new area of understanding of the chemistry of brain function .
16 Cornered , he resorted to patting her on the shoulder , while across his face flitted the craven smile of a man dealing with an unpredictable pet that yet might turn on him .
17 Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well .
18 I thought about posting it to the club as my sign of protest .
19 So this I thought about doing something on the erm , the new schools ' group what we when we finish the .
20 A SEX pest who stalked TV weathergirl Ulrika Jonsson died after throwing himself under an express train , it was revealed last night .
21 He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ .
22 She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely .
23 I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take .
24 I thought of presenting myself at the docks and saying that my pocket had been picked … but I lacked the impudence to carry it off .
25 And I thought of putting something in the paper , asking anyone born on April the tenth that year at Thorn House to get in touch .
26 When my colleague had said that , with me sitting right beside him , I felt like punching him in the face ; it was that kind of attitude that any campaign would have to fight .
27 She felt like throwing it across the room but managed to control herself .
28 Mungo felt like patting him on the back to show him that they sympathized , but the moment passed , and anyway Mr Zamoyski might not have understood .
29 Wycliffe felt like patting him on the head , but he thanked him and saw him off with his samples , then he went back to his little office and sat staring at the wall .
30 I felt like hitting him on the back of the head with a rock .
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