Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 2 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 3 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 4 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 5 | Benny tried to concentrate on the Doctor 's words while her eyes continually strayed towards Elaine . |
| 6 | Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks . |
| 7 | Some were shot dead when thousands of women , protesting against the killings , tried to march on the President 's residence . |
| 8 | THIEVES tried to break into a pensioners ' community centre just hours before a tombola to replace a stolen karaoke machine and cash . |
| 9 | A SHORT-SIGHTED burglar tried to break into an optician 's but could n't see the right way in . |
| 10 | So that was how I came to sit at the Gorengs ' dining-table with Master Goreng and Longman 's standard conversational texts before us . |
| 11 | On top of the thin dress she wore a brightly coloured , predominantly red , Chinese padded jacket ; it seemed to sparkle in the room 's dim lights . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be … well , interesting to know just how you came to hear about the infant 's birth , and why you felt this birth was … well , interesting . |
| 13 | Even among those best versed in Marxist theory , workers came to predominate as the party 's ‘ underground university ’ turned out hundreds of ‘ worker- intelligenty ’ . |
| 14 | When they immediately reacted with their automatic alarm response of rolling up into a tight ball , the entire family promptly rolled down the slope of the hill and came to rest at the man 's feet , where he picked them up and popped them into his collecting bag . |
| 15 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 16 | Ward staff are invited and encouraged to participate in the learner 's project and to attend the presentation . |
| 17 | His arm was grabbed , and he turned to look into the blonde 's entranced eyes . |
| 18 | The chickens would all be cooked by the next afternoon and allowed to cool on the pantry 's cold slabs . |
| 19 | Shaking his head sadly at the stark scene he turned to head for the Zoo 's exit . |
| 20 | ( RTC ) , the body empowered to deal with the country 's stricken Savings and Loans industry . |
| 21 | English organ music began to flourish after the King 's recruitment of two foreign organists , the Venetian Memo and Benedictus Opitiis , a Hofhaimer pupil , in 1516 . |
| 22 | With a kind of stolid tranquillity he began to reflect on the day 's work ahead . |
| 23 | But by the time the Israelites first passed that way , towards , probably , the end of the thirteenth century BCE , that tower , now exposed to view by the archaeologist 's shovel , would have been hidden deep beneath the ground , buried beneath layer after layer of the remains of a series of settlements . |
| 24 | Instead , reliance was placed on the use of general police powers to prevent disorder ; the common law duty to preserve the peace ( and the correlative offence of obstructing a constable in the execution of his duty where the demonstrator declined to comply with the constable 's reasonable instructions issued pursuant to his mandate ) , and the offence of obstructing the highway . |
| 25 | She began to walk towards the worm 's head . |
| 26 | Add to this courses where books were not obviously appropriate , and the market began to fragment before the bookseller 's eyes . |
| 27 | His nose began to rotate like a rabbit 's . |
| 28 | She began to beat on the worm 's flesh , trying to wake the children , calling , shouting , yelling . |
| 29 | The action in London had an immediate effect elsewhere as crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 30 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |