Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the [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 | 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 … . |
| 5 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 6 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 7 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 8 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 9 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 10 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 11 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 12 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 13 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 14 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 15 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door . |
| 18 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 21 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
| 26 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 27 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 28 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 29 | Gen Morillon , after talks in Belgrade , said : ‘ President Milosevic promised to help me in the implementation of every request I have made , that is the immediate ceasefire . ’ |
| 30 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |