Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | But this was the one Miss Minogue and her handlers gambled upon to turn her into a major star . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He renegotiated the agreement over tunnel usage by the railways and succeeded in presenting it as a breakthrough . |
| 8 | OPPONENTS of Mr Frank Field , the Labour MP for Birkenhead , believe they succeeded in deselecting him at the secret ballot held last Tuesday . |
| 9 | He 'd laughed at her , teased her , and succeeded in keeping her at a distance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had , in effect , stumbled without recognizing it into a major new area of understanding of the chemistry of brain function . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dozzell said : ‘ I thought about wearing it for the last few minutes , but I did n't think it would go down too well . |
| 14 | I thought about posting it to the club as my sign of protest . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 17 | I was not desperate to make money at that time , rather I thought of helping her with the commission she would take . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She felt like throwing it across the room but managed to control herself . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I felt like hitting him on the back of the head with a rock . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The first agency I went to sent me to a photographer to have some pictures taken for my portfolio . |
| 26 | As he cried out , she insisted on taking him for a drive in her car . |
| 27 | My mother insisted on accompanying me to the tailor to ensure that I got something sensible . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | And yet , when they were together , he insisted on treating her with a cool , bland charm which left her feeling baffled and frustrated . |
| 30 | But they insisted on treating her like a child — or , what was worse , like an adolescent . |