Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 2 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 3 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 4 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
| 5 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 6 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 7 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 8 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
| 9 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 10 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 11 | He ignored the partially melted ice , and began to shaft her with unbounded enthusiasm . |
| 12 | Without any preamble , except the customary offer of a cup of tea which I declined , the Inspector began to take me in painstaking detail through my account of my discovery of Froggy 's body . |
| 13 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 14 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 15 | Charles decided to play it for light comedy . |
| 16 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 17 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 18 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 19 | and I , I went to see her in open evening , I could n't understand her , cos she you know , she real , I mean she is French |
| 20 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |
| 21 | He waded through it with a non-stop grin and managed to turn it to political advantage . |
| 22 | BORIS Yeltsin , the Russian President , suffered two serious blows last night when the country 's highest parliament voted to strip him of direct control of the government by July , and Ukraine made clear it would not ratify a landmark arms treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union . |
| 23 | The early industrialists were proud of their achievements and liked to have them in full view . |
| 24 | Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation . |
| 25 | They could purchase land from owners who refused to sell for development or from builders who wished to retain it for future development . |
| 26 | Local militia had to protect it against enthusiastic souvenir hunters . |
| 27 | His prick slipped smoothly back into her vagina , and continued to shaft her with glorious piston movements . |
| 28 | The metal-winged VH-BAF joined the Airworld Collection in 1988 , who continued to maintain it in airworthy condition . |
| 29 | So now in America his two friends had to rescue him from certain death by yanking him back , as he meditated and was about to walk in front of a fast street-car . |
| 30 | A gentle , flower-garlanded goddess , Lakshmi spent a great deal of her time in contemplating the universe and bestowed gifts of calm and wisdom upon those mortals who sought to emulate her through transcendental meditation . |