Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was trying to love myself , the starting point of it all , that seemed to lead me in so many strange directions . |
| 2 | Mrs Stych could many times have wept with humiliation when Donna hastened to tell her of yet another minor car accident in which his ancient jalopy had been involved , yet another girl with whom he had once been seen who was ‘ in trouble ’ . |
| 3 | He emerged then and she dropped her hand self-consciously , straightened her dress and tried to rearrange her expression into one of indifferent professionalism as an attractive blonde girl draped herself decorously around his neck and began to kiss him with quite unnecessary passion . |
| 4 | My brother , sister and I have made lots of friends whilst we have been down there , but it only really started to fascinate us from about 2 or 3 years ago , before then we had just been interested in swimming , going into the amusements and going to the beach etc . |
| 5 | She put her arms around his neck , and Edouard managed to resist her for about thirty seconds . |
| 6 | They pumped out the Patience and managed to stabilise it after about two hours . |
| 7 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 8 | They were speculators , who hoped to sell it for even more than the showroom price even though it meant tying up a £50,000 deposit for four years . |
| 9 | She had to give it at least one more try . |
| 10 | She had to bathe them in very hot water every night for months and fortunately the accident left no permanent damage . |