Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 2 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | She left her home last night as her owner tried to weigh her in the garden . |
| 9 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 10 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 11 | He then tried to toss him in the air . |
| 12 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
| 13 | ‘ We tried to sign him in the summer that we bought Jim Leighton from Aberdeen , but the money Brondby were asking was out of the question , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 14 | Camino came to see me in the bank and asked if the village girls would be prepared to collect food and take it on their bicycles to the prisoners . |
| 15 | All the same I felt a twinge of unease as he came to greet me in the bar of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg , an admiral now and much older , hobbling a little and holding a stick . |
| 16 | Once again Abbot Bere came to greet us in the guest house , accompanied by a monk who had been absent at our earlier meeting . |
| 17 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |
| 18 | One of the cats came to meet her in the wood and accompanied her back into the house . |
| 19 | He said he learnt to do it in the field during the Falklands War . |
| 20 | I recall , for instance , the occasion around that time I happened to encounter her in the back corridor . |
| 21 | The obvious thing to do is raise income tax , but the Government pledged to reduce it in the election manifesto — just after the commitment to the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) . |
| 22 | He turned to face her in the doorway . |
| 23 | 13–1–1906 They had under consideration the question of using the Hymnary in the public worship and agreed to use it in the summer if there was no serious collection among the people . |
| 24 | For a fraction of a second , a strange , satanic glitter lit up Lucie 's eyes and his fist clenched and he began to punch it in the air . |
| 25 | Frank took off his glasses and began to polish them in the sheet with enthusiasm . |
| 26 | There was a pile of logs and some firelighters and paper in a large basket in the hearth , and Preston started to pile them in the grate while she continued her explorations in the garden . |
| 27 | When the young men came back and started to film her in the kitchen , she forgot every word she had learned . |
| 28 | I decided to keep them in the count because they gave an interesting sidelight on the history of lending libraries in England with some specific examples , and there were not too many of them . |
| 29 | I decided to phone him in the evening . |
| 30 | They decided to price it in the middle of the range , at the ‘ black label ’ level , but they issued the actual record with a special Royal Purple design . |