Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever got to see it complete , except me and Terry of course . ’ |
| 2 | Isabel tried to yank them free . |
| 3 | The windows were tightly shut , and the rooms smelled stuffy , but not damp , though the drawers of the chest stuck as I tried to pull them open . |
| 4 | I promised to set him free . ’ |
| 5 | Seeman tried to render it useful by identifying five meanings for it : |
| 6 | THUGS poured petrol over a schoolboy and tried to set him alight after he refused to go shoplifting . |
| 7 | Neil had petrol poured over him by thugs who then tried to set him alight . |
| 8 | One MP even tried to put him right last night . |
| 9 | Initially my son did n't want to see me , the youngest girl thought it was her fault and tried to put it right , while the middle one seemed completely untouched by the whole thing . |
| 10 | The players sat as far away from her as they could , but the smell and the squealing promised to keep them awake all night . |
| 11 | He commiserated with Blair over his failure with certain seeds and promised to send him rare plants . |
| 12 | So that 's what we did , along with chasing after various red herrings which somebody provided to keep us busy . |
| 13 | The eggs would get broken if the mother animal tried to keep them warm , as the mother bird does , because she is so heavy . |
| 14 | Because of the conditions , I tried to keep it simple and was extra careful not to make any mistakes . |
| 15 | If we tried to keep it alive we had an open flank : some guy trying to save his own ass by telling them : ‘ Jeez if you drink I did bad things just look at what Magill and Tadham were doing in London . ’ |
| 16 | He tried to keep it quiet , but there were people in the neighbourhood who were all too eager to be a part of the excitement . |
| 17 | ‘ We 'd heard of Lina 's return , of course , although they tried to keep it quiet . |
| 18 | ‘ Then one day she found that she was going to have another baby ; she was so wretched that she tried to keep it secret at first . |
| 19 | On the contrary , my hyperactivity helped to keep me warm . |
| 20 | Philip tried to hold them steady . |
| 21 | She tried to hold it steady . |
| 22 | Beaten to death : A 45-year-old married man was beaten to death in Cardiff by a gang of teenage vandals after he tried to stop them damaging traffic bollards . |
| 23 | An accident : The man who died when friends tried to stop him drink-driving . |
| 24 | He slumped to the floor and she tried to drag him clear . |
| 25 | I would say that , instead of ‘ spoon-feeding ’ the residents , they tried to make them independent . |
| 26 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 27 | Animation returned to Victoria 's features ; it was so touching when your children tried to make you cheerful with no conception of what was on your mind . |
| 28 | I tried to explain why it was that I went into the bushes , tried to make it sound reasonable . ’ |
| 29 | He tried to make it sound fresh and exciting . |
| 30 | It was so simple , however hard Izzie tried to make it sound difficult with all her ‘ don'ts ’ . |