Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 32 | Frank took off his glasses and began to polish them in the sheet with enthusiasm . |
| 33 | He declined to add anything in the column for ‘ Other personal information ’ . |
| 34 | Because of the growing publicity surrounding his movements , he decided to lose himself in the crowd , going in through the turnstiles and watching the player from the terraces . |
| 35 | However , if Mr Chekhov decided to write anything in the future it would be delighted to have look at it . |
| 36 | There was a pile of logs and some firelighters and paper in a large basket in the hearth , and Preston started to pile them in the grate while she continued her explorations in the garden . |
| 37 | When the young men came back and started to film her in the kitchen , she forgot every word she had learned . |
| 38 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 39 | I decided to phone him in the evening . |
| 40 | They decided to price it in the middle of the range , at the ‘ black label ’ level , but they issued the actual record with a special Royal Purple design . |
| 41 | Like most families the Keiths and Mackenzies had brought picnics , and they decided to have theirs in the paddock where the Highland Games were being held . |
| 42 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 43 | I decided to telephone him in the hope that he was still soothing his habitual hangover with buckets of orange juice , followed by gallons of coffee . |
| 44 | Roger started to propel her in the direction of yet another tall , fair man . |
| 45 | ‘ Nobody except me that is , ’ I added hastily in case he decided to throw me in the dungeons . |
| 46 | Doctors fought to save him in the days afterward . |
| 47 | On hearing that Harry wished to go up to Melton Mowbray for the day , he offered to drive him in the Bentley . |
| 48 | If they chose to greet him in the street , he did not acknowledge them . |
| 49 | But you 're right about Willesden and how you ladies managed to find us in the blackout beats me . ’ |
| 50 | Anyway it ended up in a fight and he started pushing me around and went to punch me in the stomach but I managed to stop him . |
| 51 | And my mother er went to help them in the lodge in the season time also . |
| 52 | I went to fetch it in the van . |
| 53 | Jim went to put something in the garage |
| 54 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 55 | Lady Grubb picked up her plate of junket and went to eat it in the drawing-room , shaking with a passion she did n't care to scrutinize because it contained not only fury but also amazement and fear . |
| 56 | If she still managed to get anything in the way of a book published he would persuade some friends to provide bad reviews . |
| 57 | They always cried to put you in the wrong . |
| 58 | And though she longed to lose herself in the flames , to be consumed and reborn , she was also terribly afraid . |
| 59 | Teri has given up going to New Year 's Eve parties after she had to lock herself in the kitchen with loads of middle aged ladies hammering on the door . |
| 60 | He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away . |