Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been ‘ much pleased ’ with the suggestion , ‘ but was deterr 'd from improving it by the greatness of the subject … |
| 2 | especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found . |
| 3 | And diamonds were a man 's best friend when it came to making it with the opposite sex . |
| 4 | OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday . |
| 5 | At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property . |
| 6 | I talked about shooting ourselves in the foot and that 's another example . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 9 | I thought about posting it to the club as my sign of protest . |
| 10 | So this I thought about doing something on the erm , the new schools ' group what we when we finish the . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 13 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She felt like throwing it across the room but managed to control herself . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I felt like hitting him on the back of the head with a rock . |
| 21 | The other day , in America , the driver of my car said : ‘ I do n't know how you can leave her , ’ and I felt like smacking him in the face . |
| 22 | However , one can not satisfactorily identify the question what a speaker meant in saying something with the question what caused his utterance . |
| 23 | My mother insisted on accompanying me to the tailor to ensure that I got something sensible . |
| 24 | You were the one who refused to go away , the one who insisted on trailing me along the road . |
| 25 | She finished breathlessly , and Greg refrained from enlightening her on the history of New Zealand . |
| 26 | His pursuer smiled grimly , and waited as many seconds as he dared before heaving himself over the wall with surprising agility . |
| 27 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 28 | In one yesterday , an article by Islington Council leader Margaret Hodge ended by describing her as the leader of the Association of Local Authorities since 1093 . |