Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 2 | I used to talk to her and when I found out she was murdered it was a shock , because you expected to see her in here |
| 3 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 4 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
| 5 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 6 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 7 | The film sped up as Cameron ran out of the building , still in his tailcoat , and tried to lose himself in the streets around the Barbican . |
| 8 | She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English . |
| 9 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 10 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 11 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I asked if she remembered Old Red , and described meeting him in the subway , but not his current reputation , for that would have been less than tactful , as I hoped one day to marry them off , and unfair , since he had been so pleasant to me . |
| 14 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 15 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 16 | Dougal tried to immerse himself in The Journal of a Fallen Angel . |
| 17 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 18 | Under the influence of this late surge of rational speculation I tried to view myself in a different light . |
| 19 | Now , when I look at the pictures of the car after the crash , with the passenger-side floor sill and roof crumpled and distorted and my seat moved forward — which helped trap me in the car — I wonder whether we chose the car on the correct criteria . |
| 20 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 21 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 22 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After the appeal , Duncan McAllister resigned his Army commission while publicity surrounding Christie 's friendship with Anna Moore helped keep her in the public eye . |
| 25 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 26 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 27 | He tried to discourage her in every way . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 30 | As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words . |