Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] " 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 | He kept pulling on the stick , then swung away and made to carry it off . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : I would have it tomorrow , being Monday , for on a Monday seven weeks ago , I planned to carry her off and on a Monday I wrote the letter which prevailed on her so kindly to return to me . |
| 4 | You got to meet me up the railway . |
| 5 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 6 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
| 7 | But Humphreys , who was not legally represented , said the warnings about the chemicals had been sent by fax to a 17year-old trainee at his office who failed to pass them on . |
| 8 | I suppose it is out of the question that one of our own police stations might have received such a notification , and failed to pass it on ? ’ |
| 9 | I do hope your aunt is n't ill again , I quite expected to find her up , her card , you know , her card indicated she was ready for callers again . ’ |
| 10 | Ben Turner , 18 , admitted knocking him down but said he tried to stop the others from piling in . |
| 11 | We chanced to find it out . ’ |
| 12 | But faced with the sound of the word , and asked to write it down , the possibilities multiply so that instead of half a dozen there are now somewhere round one hundred and fifty variants possible . |
| 13 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 14 | ‘ The guy tried to trip me up , so I told him what I thought . |
| 15 | Perry tried to kill me off — as if one could kill an abstraction , a measurement . |
| 16 | He 's the one that , somebody tried to assassinate him or someone tried to kill him off . |
| 17 | Four times people at higher levels tried to kill it off , and four times the people working on it came back and fought for it , argued for it , provided justification and evidence for why it should continue : ‘ Just give us a little more time ; we know we can make it work . ’ |
| 18 | When I tried to sit him up |
| 19 | He blustered and turned scarlet as if caught out in a crime , and tried to bluff it out , but I knew him too well . |
| 20 | ( ‘ They 've kicked us in the teeth so often ’ , ‘ They tried to write us off like they did Kenya ; but we would n't stand for it . ’ ) |
| 21 | Nell Anderson stopped , treading water as she tried to work it out . |
| 22 | We tried to work it out . |
| 23 | Rincewind tried to work it out , and decided that even if the box were crammed with star opals and sticks of auricholatum the contents would not be worth one-tenth the price of the container . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | so those houses were all sandbagged , but it , it got into some , the problem was that the , the road closed sign kept blowing down in the wind , I tried to stand it up but it was oh so heavy , I got it up , but it , it immediately blew down again , and |
| 26 | You tried to catch me out there did n't you ? |
| 27 | Some of the old inspectors tried to catch you out . |
| 28 | The Doctor tried to shake him off . |
| 29 | Huw felt an unaccustomed tremor of fear , and tried to shake it off . |
| 30 | She tried to shake it off . |