Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to knock myself out with some cider I 'd bought , then I swallowed a bottle of weedkiller and started to walk towards the lake . |
| 2 | So I went there and cornered her in the canteen and tried to chat her up for half an hour . |
| 3 | Hell , Nick , I tried to get her out of that place , but she did n't care . |
| 4 | The West Indies captain was applauded all the way to the wicket , then seemed to play himself back into some sort of form . |
| 5 | the guy in the car park when he forgot to ring him back about some important business . |
| 6 | They just happened to move me off into this quieter road . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 8 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 9 | Infuriated by the glint of triumph in his deep blue eyes , she managed to get herself back under some sort of control , though the rivers he 'd sent surging through her body with his kisses were far from still . |
| 10 | ‘ A number of invitations have been outstanding for some time , and people just chose to take them up at this stage , ’ one said . |
| 11 | Charles planned to marry her off to this man . |
| 12 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 13 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 14 | But he felt that McAllister had to pay something back for all the fairy-tales which she had told Matey and himself , and which Matey had so gullibly swallowed . |
| 15 | However , the participants of the Geneva conference recognised the incomplete nature of their work and they hoped to follow it up with another conference . |
| 16 | ‘ To be honest I wanted to keep them out of all this . |