Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 2 | Units which sought to establish themselves outside such a plan would not only not receive public money ; they would also not qualify for any other public benefits . |
| 3 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 4 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 5 | I stepped inside and got behind her and tried pushing her from that side . |
| 6 | Charles put on a brave face to the world , but secretly he was in turmoil for many , many months ; and one other person who helped see him through this period was Diana . |
| 7 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 8 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 9 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 10 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 11 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 12 | Sure enough , the rescued man later tried to murder somebody with that very hand . |
| 13 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 14 | Jesus , if you knew how hard we tried to get her off that damned powder . ’ |
| 15 | Donna tried to convince herself of that as she walked slowly around the ruins of Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 16 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 17 | On a Saturday afternoon , Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation . |
| 18 | Tallis invokes Frege 's distinction between ‘ The Morning Star ’ and ‘ The Evening Star ’ , which are different expressions with different senses or meanings , as would be apparent if we tried to translate them into another language , but they have the same referent ( the planet Venus ) . |
| 19 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 20 | The person who helped squeeze her into this skin tight outfit has left the building and no one else can help her get out . |
| 21 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 22 | ‘ I came to see you about some notes I sent your husband . |
| 23 | At least , he 'd hated her after that single flare of interest as she 'd climbed out of Peter 's hired jeep , but it had died instantly when , striding boyishly round the front of the vehicle , Peter had gone straight up to his elder brother and announced , ‘ Meet my amazing fiancée , big brother ! ’ |
| 24 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |
| 25 | Even knowing she looked ridiculous , she 'd enjoyed it after that first entrance , had loved being on a stage again , singing with the company . |
| 26 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 27 | But Clare seemed to know nothing of this side of the relationship between her brother and her cousin . |
| 28 | Hamnett took the towpath ; insofar as he 'd considered it at all , the old fellow thought he must have returned the other way . ’ |
| 29 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 30 | He 'd kill me if he knew I 'd made something like this . ’ |