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

No	Sentence
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	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 .
5	OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday .
6	At last he succeeded in hauling himself over the boundary wall to the solid ground that marked the edge of Old Ashfield property .
7	I talked about shooting ourselves in the foot and that 's another example .
8	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 .
9	Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well .
10	I thought about posting it to the club as my sign of protest .
11	So this I thought about doing something on the erm , the new schools ' group what we when we finish the .
12	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 ’ .
13	She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely .
14	I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take .
15	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 .
16	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 .
17	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 .
18	She felt like throwing it across the room but managed to control herself .
19	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 .
20	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 .
21	I felt like hitting him on the back of the head with a rock .
22	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 .
23	However , one can not satisfactorily identify the question what a speaker meant in saying something with the question what caused his utterance .
24	My mother insisted on accompanying me to the tailor to ensure that I got something sensible .
25	You were the one who refused to go away , the one who insisted on trailing me along the road .
26	He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him .
27	She finished breathlessly , and Greg refrained from enlightening her on the history of New Zealand .
28	His pursuer smiled grimly , and waited as many seconds as he dared before heaving himself over the wall with surprising agility .
29	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 .
30	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 .