Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 2 | Only got to do it for a second . |
| 3 | But Carssier thirty two insisted she only tried to defend herself after Rosemary repeatedly punched her ! |
| 4 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 5 | From now until the catastrophe of 1870 the Emperor 's foreign policy was to be one of expedients and compromises , all of which only served to demean him in the eyes of Europe , while simultaneously underlining how feeble was any form of ‘ court diplomacy ’ faced with the reality of Bismarck 's ‘ blood and iron ’ tactics . |
| 6 | But they only started to perfect it at the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | I had n't , I 'd borrowed it from Duncan but I 'd heard the Hell 's Angel crack so many times before I suddenly decided to charge him for it . |
| 8 | She constantly needed to caution him about the many dangers he was either too young or too stupid to recognize for himself . |
| 9 | He only managed to save himself from falling into the sea by putting one foot on either side of the doorway . |
| 10 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 11 | He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips . |
| 12 | She only had to make it to the airlock , seal the inner door behind her and wait … . |
| 13 | I maintained a straighter course now but perpetually wanted to stop , and so had to ration myself to two minutes rest in every fifteen , and ten minutes on the hour . |
| 14 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 15 | Yet she only wanted to do it with Lord George . |
| 16 | I took another deep breath — I only wanted to see him for half an hour — and said what I could . |
| 17 | ‘ I only wanted to thank you for organizing a unique experience for me . ’ |
| 18 | The two claimed in court they only intended to scare him into giving information about their property . |
| 19 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 20 | It is in Britain 's interest for us to be at the heart of that Europe — where the Prime Minister said that he wanted us , but where he signally failed to put us at Maastricht . |
| 21 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
| 22 | Limeking went down as if shot , and his rider Pat Buckley desperately tried to get him to his feet as the horse , flanks heaving , lay in a mess of thorn and fir and mud . |
| 23 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 24 | So out I went , Halton is ringed with beautiful beech forests and one of my training runs just happened to take me through one of these forests where I felt I was utterly safe except for the birds and the bees . |
| 25 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 26 | A number of COS district branches soon began to form themselves into separate committees for this purpose , and in 1902 a Central Industrial Bureau was opened which , under pressure from increased applications from boys as well as girls , addressed itself to both sexes . |
| 27 | When he finally decided to publish it in 1678 , he defended its form by comparing the tactics of the hunt for souls with the way in which a fowler must whistle to attract birds , and a fisherman must tickle trout before he can clasp them . |
| 28 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 29 | Mrs Rumney held the door wide as I finally managed to steer him towards it but the big dog was n't finished yet . |
| 30 | Drinking off the last of the wine and moving on to the coffee he finally managed to confront himself with the question of why he had been so slow to begin . |