Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried phoning him with a variety of invitations she felt he would n't refuse , but he always made excuses for not meeting her . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | By the same token , Edwin told me that Gifford stopped using it after his stroke . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It proposed bringing him before a tribunal of officers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I stepped inside and got behind her and tried pushing her from that side . |
| 9 | Unable to think of anything else to do , I suggested to Eileen that we tried regressing her to her childhood . |
| 10 | Oliver was a whiny child , partly , I think , because Nonni had set ideas about bringing up babies which involved feeding them at set hours and leaving them to cry in between . |
| 11 | Ken took Apricot with him on gigs for a time and quite enjoyed it , but found getting her to school and organizing her clothes and meals onerous . |
| 12 | I tried reversing it to five-one-five . |
| 13 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 14 | He stopped buying them for her when they got married . |
| 15 | I tried calling you in Budapest on Friday and Saturday but could n't get a reply . |
| 16 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 17 | I tried doing it with my fingers but |
| 18 | They , they stopped having them on the , the seafront anyway . |
| 19 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 20 | People stopped giving it to them . |
| 21 | Because that was when I stopped taking it for granted . |
| 22 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 23 | So several of us tried standing him on his head and quickly reversing him . |
| 24 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |
| 25 | You tried putting them in two two sets of how many . |
| 26 | She has long thick hair and tried drying it with three different dryers . |
| 27 | Enlightened bureaucrats sought to put it in the hands of a newly created ministry ; conservatives proposed transferring it from the liberal Ministry of Education to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 28 | She tried teasing him with her perfectly-rounded breasts , swinging the soft globes against his face . |
| 29 | Thankfully all men and women returned safely from the Second World War , so a sum of money was given to the hall and a brass plaque erected declaring it to be a memorial village hall . |
| 30 | Same country accent : I tried practising it in my head , pretending I was a rosy-cheeked barmaid serving cider . |