Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 2 | He tried to walk past me down the stairs , but I stopped him . |
| 3 | I let myself in , and stopped to look around me in the small outer room . |
| 4 | We tried to reason with them about the bathroom . |
| 5 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
| 6 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 7 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 8 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 9 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
| 10 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 11 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 12 | The way she felt about him seemed to sweep round her like the clouds up above . |
| 13 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 14 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 15 | Went to stay with them and Ruth came to read to you in the morning . |
| 16 | Oh no , Ann came to read to you in the mornings did n't she ? |
| 17 | You see , I never saw him till he came to stay with us in the school holidays . ’ |
| 18 | These data were all to hand by early February and he prepared to speak about them at the APS ( American Physical Society ) meeting set for 1 May , sending in an abstract for the announcement of the talk . |
| 19 | Naturally , he tried to hush it up after , but your dad got to hear of it from the doctor and he did n't half go for Josh — you can imagine . |
| 20 | I got to hear about it from the police . ’ |
| 21 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 22 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 23 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 24 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 25 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 26 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 27 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 28 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 29 | Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone . |
| 30 | And that was when her conscience , which because she 'd got something else to think about had stayed quiet , suddenly started to get to her about the way in which she was deceiving the man she loved . |