Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 8 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 9 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 10 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 11 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 12 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 15 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 16 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door . |
| 19 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 26 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 29 | ‘ Shit ! ’ screamed the driver as he tried to extricate himself from the situation . |
| 30 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |