Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 4 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 5 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 6 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 7 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 8 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 9 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 10 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 11 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 12 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 15 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 16 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 17 | He replied politely that just as he studied the whereabouts of bones and tendons and muscles so as to know more about the figures he tried to draw , in the same way — if he was attempting a portrait — it helped to know something about the working of people 's minds and how their characters had been formed . |
| 18 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 19 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 20 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 21 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 22 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 23 | He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door . |
| 24 | A dozen policemen rushed into the room and tried to herd everyone into the corners . |
| 25 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 26 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 27 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 28 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 29 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 30 | He tried to flog it on the bus |