Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 2 | As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded . |
| 3 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 4 | She 'd found her wallet of credit cards and flourished it under his nose , every fibre of her being poised to defy him if he tried to deny her the right to pay . |
| 5 | But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that . |
| 6 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 7 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 8 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |
| 9 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 10 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 11 | The influence of the ‘ parent ’ is very strong — parents tried to teach you the concepts of life . |
| 12 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 13 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 14 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 15 | I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college . |
| 16 | So it was that her charisma and undoubted beauty helped to make her the first lady air correspondent in the world . |
| 17 | And Jimmy [ Jewel ] came to see him the other day and we walked across the road to the pub . |
| 18 | He came to see me the other evening . |
| 19 | She came to see me the first night I was home , and we sat on the verandah , rather tongue-tied after such a long time , saying stupid things like : " Did you have a good trip ? " |
| 20 | " David Fairfax came to see you the other day , " Matthew went on . |
| 21 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
| 22 | Apparently , the guru had played little part in the proceedings , confining himself to putting records on the gramophone ; and this , for Eliot , seemed to render him the more sinister . |
| 23 | When a priest came to give her the Last Rites , she gazed on the crucifix that he held before her eyes and felt her illness leave her . |
| 24 | Jesus , as the Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the end , Jesus , who came to give us the good news , news worth singing about . |
| 25 | ‘ Why she seemed to dislike me the moment she set eyes on me . |
| 26 | George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well . |
| 27 | Papers which fought to win him the election have , like so many of his back-benchers and supporters , turned against him . |
| 28 | My wife telephoned to give me the news which had been heard by our daughter listening to the radio . |
| 29 | In the end she agreed to give him the money for " Jack 's " fare . |
| 30 | So he agreed to give her the camera , show her how to use it ; he 'd make sure the family were out the afternoon she came round to get the film developed . |