Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to pull free of Rohmer 's grasp , but could not . |
| 2 | I tried to absorb some of Ryan 's confidence . |
| 3 | One Tory MP , an aristocrat of impeccable right-wing views , who helped renegotiate some of Romania 's debts at the beginning of the hard years in the 1980s , also enjoyed joking with Ceauşescu . |
| 4 | This evening I tried to read some of Alcestis , but it was n't the same . |
| 5 | He tried to recall some of Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's dos and donts . |
| 6 | Although he stumbled into football as much by accident as design , he rose to become one of Scotland 's most charismatic players . |
| 7 | Leading building societies and banks , including Halifax , Abbey National , Nationwide and NatWest , agreed to set millions of pounds to allow hard-pressed borrowers to convert their mortgages to rent . |
| 8 | During talks between the two sides , India agreed to purchase all of Nepal 's surplus electricity and to upgrade rail links between the two countries . |
| 9 | Not that we 'd seen much of Mary lately . |
| 10 | But in the end we felt we 'd seen enough of logging and gum-digging . |
| 11 | She 'd seen more of life and death at twenty-six than most people would see in their entire lifetime . |
| 12 | It was in this way that Havard first came to hear many of Tolkien 's tales , David Cecil 's Two Quiet Lives , and reflections on Dante by Colin Hardie ( who taught Classics at Magdalen and was also a regular member of the circle ) , as well as many of Lewis 's own works . |
| 13 | So you see when it i when I had , I 'd got one of thems done but you ca n't o help others out . |
| 14 | She 'd had enough of parents . |
| 15 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 16 | He 'd had enough of learning . |
| 17 | He often said he 'd had enough of living and was ‘ ready to go ’ was how he put it . |
| 18 | I 'd had enough of people I knew dying or being killed , and I did n't want to be there to see all my relatives being miserable and to listen to their bomb stories . |
| 19 | It was as if he 'd crossed one of life 's bridges ; there was no going back , and the view was n't the same any more . |
| 20 | Kalm was an excellent observer , a meticulous recorder and made the most of his time at the Physic Garden , which he judged to rival those of Paris and Leyden at the time , and believed it to ‘ overgo them in North American plants ’ . |
| 21 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 22 | Ignoring her protests , he snapped the hook into place and adjusted the straps for her comfortably , as if he 'd dressed thousands of women . |
| 23 | Mrs Lydan 's husband Bill died last year but she 'd kept dozens of stones , and pieces of jewellery which he 's given her over the years . |
| 24 | In a separate development , the Amir of Kuwait , Shaikh Jabir al Ahmad al Jabir as Sabah disclosed on Aug. 13 that Iraq 's President Saddam Hussein had , three months before the invasion , warned the Amir of military action if he failed to cede one-third of Kuwait 's territories to Iraq . |
| 25 | Run by the UK embassy and guaranteed to attract thousands of visitors the show is from April 23 to 25 . |
| 26 | She began to struggle free of Marco 's embrace , groping around for anchorage . |
| 27 | Tony sat down and began to play one of Mrs Lark 's songs . |
| 28 | I began to understand some of Holmes ' plan . |
| 29 | But there is little point , for instance , in turning on an artistic , enlightened medieval king because he also enjoyed slaughtering hundreds of deer in a day 's hunt and daubing the fresh blood on his own face and those of his friends . |
| 30 | The attack happened when two US F-16 jets rushed to intercept two of Saddam 's MiGs , spotted over the south of Iraq . |