Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
| 3 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 4 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 5 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
| 6 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 7 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 8 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 9 | He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms . |
| 10 | He chased them in Australia last year , tried to hunt them down at the Arms Park in the World Cup , but found himself on the end of the heaviest Welsh defeats home and away . |
| 11 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 12 | She glared at him , then scanned the road for anyone who might offer help if he turned nasty and tried to force her back inside the car , but , apart from an elderly woman walking an equally elderly terrier along the opposite pavement , the road was deserted . |
| 13 | Codron tried to get it on at the Royal Court — on the face of things , an ideal setting-but it was turned down there , too . |
| 14 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 15 | I carried my bewilderment into the coffee shop and tried to drown it along with the froth of my cappuccino . |
| 16 | Constanza tried to follow her out of the hotel — as she was very very upset , my grandmother — but Constanza was too late . |
| 17 | We agreed to set it up at the last meeting . |
| 18 | Once when I was leaving for Europe , he came to see me off at the airport , bringing a parting gift . |
| 19 | Pierre came to pick them up in the long Mercedes and they piled in with all their bags and appurtenances . |
| 20 | Sparta had taken Delphi out of Phokian control ; Athens intervened to give it back to the Phokians , and that was that . |
| 21 | Not much of a job when it came to put them on like the erm you know the pipe that pushes them out ? |
| 22 | A while later , when she was finished and dressed and sitting alone , Charlie came to take her out to the taxi . |
| 23 | ‘ I forgot to put it out for the birds yesterday morning . ’ |
| 24 | She could n't even accuse him of laying a finger on her , since she was always fast asleep when he joined her in the large bed , and the twins arrived to wake her up in the morning . |
| 25 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |
| 26 | After a long debate , they finally agreed to put us up for the night . |
| 27 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 28 | Taking her cup and saucer over to the sink in the small kitchenette , she began to rinse them out under the tap . |
| 29 | It was in the corresponding match last season that Marshall sustained the knee ligament damage which threatened to put him out of the game . |
| 30 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |