Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 32 | By the same token , Edwin told me that Gifford stopped using it after his stroke . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Sometimes I was in the depths of despair , but the other inmates helped to carry me through prison . ‘ |
| 34 | In 1903 the Persian government stopped the import of these aniline dyes and brought in laws , which were strictly enforced , ordering dye-houses found using them to be burnt to the ground . |
| 35 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 36 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 37 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 38 | ‘ Are you saying Mills was a traitor , that he helped to mislead us into thinking WIN was genuine ? ’ |
| 39 | It helped push him towards resignation . ’ |
| 40 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 41 | He tried to kill her by pumping exhaust fumes into the vehicle while they were both inside , Mr Charles Kellett , prosecuting , said . |
| 42 | He tried to kill me for no apparent reason . |
| 43 | Since someone tried to kill him with a parcel bomb back in Lusaka , he 's moved several times and today still goes in fear of his life . |
| 44 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 45 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 46 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 47 | She went to sleep , and woke to growl , ‘ Me least , ’ and he put a bath towel round her and tried to carry her into his bed-sitting room , but he was too frail to do it and she had to wake up again to walk by herself . |
| 48 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 51 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 52 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 53 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 54 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 55 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 56 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 57 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 58 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 59 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 60 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |