Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 2 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 3 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 4 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 5 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 6 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 7 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
| 8 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 9 | Gen Morillon , after talks in Belgrade , said : ‘ President Milosevic promised to help me in the implementation of every request I have made , that is the immediate ceasefire . ’ |
| 10 | She left her home last night as her owner tried to weigh her in the garden . |
| 11 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 12 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 13 | Who in drunken rage tried to hang himself in the orchard . |
| 14 | He then tried to toss him in the air . |
| 15 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
| 16 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 17 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
| 18 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 19 | Once again Abbot Bere came to greet us in the guest house , accompanied by a monk who had been absent at our earlier meeting . |
| 20 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
| 21 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |
| 22 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 23 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
| 24 | The obvious thing to do is raise income tax , but the Government pledged to reduce it in the election manifesto — just after the commitment to the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |
| 25 | He turned to face her in the doorway . |
| 26 | She took up the beautiful veil you bought me , put it on her own head , then turned to admire herself in the mirror . |
| 27 | 13–1–1906 They had under consideration the question of using the Hymnary in the public worship and agreed to use it in the summer if there was no serious collection among the people . |
| 28 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 29 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 30 | James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford . |