Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face .
5 In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … .
6 Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa .
7 The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season .
8 His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton .
9 Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life .
10 ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’
11 They tried to eject him from the podium .
12 He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex .
13 Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant .
14 ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head .
15 As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm .
16 Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move .
17 Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot .
18 ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 .
19 He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather .
20 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 .
21 He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door .
22 As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle .
23 ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men .
24 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 .
25 He tried to find it after the war .
26 He tried to flog it on the bus
27 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 .
28 Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him .
29 I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall .
30 His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days .
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