Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was the one Miss Minogue and her handlers gambled upon to turn her into a major star . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He renegotiated the agreement over tunnel usage by the railways and succeeded in presenting it as a breakthrough . |
| 5 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had , in effect , stumbled without recognizing it into a major new area of understanding of the chemistry of brain function . |
| 8 | In her early scenes , Ms Robertson 's vocalising is so strident that at times I felt like strapping her to a chair and stuffing a wad of cotton in her mouth . |
| 9 | She was easily impressed , but Charles felt like indulging himself in a little tour de force . |
| 10 | The first agency I went to sent me to a photographer to have some pictures taken for my portfolio . |
| 11 | As he cried out , she insisted on taking him for a drive in her car . |
| 12 | After Hassan 's departure they had escorted an abnormally subdued and submissive Dora to her room , where Iris insisted on putting her through a series of noisy deep-breathing exercises , ‘ to calm her down ’ , and then prepared a cup of herbal tea , ‘ to make her sleep ’ . |
| 13 | And yet , when they were together , he insisted on treating her with a cool , bland charm which left her feeling baffled and frustrated . |
| 14 | But they insisted on treating her like a child — or , what was worse , like an adolescent . |
| 15 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |