Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another experiment , subjects were woken either five or fifteen minutes after REM sleep had started , and asked to estimate which of the two intervals had been used . |
| 2 | It was only when I got to know something of the poverty of India 's villages ( some 500,000 of them ) that I really saw far worse poverty . |
| 3 | I tried to guess which of the women were the Russian wives of men stationed here and which were Latvian girls . |
| 4 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 5 | Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call . |
| 6 | Subsequently , they carried out the investigation ‘ Maxbox ’ , which involved deciding which of the open boxes that can be made from a 12 cm x 12 cm square of paper by cutting squares from the corners and folding into a lidless cuboid ‘ held the most ’ . |
| 7 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 8 | She leaned on the fence , wrapped her coat more closely round her body and tried to assimilate something of the tranquillity of the night , but all she could think of was the hurt in Barney 's eyes and the stiffness of his voice . |
| 9 | I knew Ellen hated the cold , and I tried to warn her of the conditions we might expect in those latitudes . |
| 10 | She looked at her daughter 's lovely face , and tried to warn her of the dangers of love , but the girl did not listen . |
| 11 | But there was some trouble with her in her early teens and perhaps she 'd guessed something of the truth . |
| 12 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 13 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 14 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 15 | Enver Hoxha 's widow Nexhmije Hoxha , who had headed the Communist-dominated Democratic Front until December 1990 , but who had subsequently been expelled from the party as it sought to rid itself of the hardline old guard , was arrested on Dec. 4 to stand trial for corruption , as was Rita Marko , a politburo member for 34 years until July 1990 . |
| 16 | The leader of the Peronist congressional bloc , José Luis Manzano , claimed to know nothing of the payments which another Peronist deputy , Luis Saadi , described as " odious " as well as being illegal . |
| 17 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 18 | The Labour MP Dr Jack Cunningham was touring the complex during the nuclear spillage , but the nuclear company failed to notify him of the incident . |
| 19 | We began to experience something of the build up to labour pains . |
| 20 | His refusal to grant extra funding on the grounds of ‘ basic need ’ at the two schools in his own constituency created a political storm which threatened to deprive him of the Roman Catholic vote in the general election . |
| 21 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 22 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 23 | Next morning Mr Jarvis rang to tell them of the pleasure he and his daughter with her little friend had had when releasing the squirrel . |
| 24 | But a little nagging voice at the back of her mind kept reminding her of the way he had blown up the taxi rank after Anthony died . |
| 25 | She kept reminding herself of the stories about him in the gossip columns , of his reputation as a womaniser . |
| 26 | As he pushed the calf 's head towards the udder he spat to rid himself of the polluting sight of birth . |
| 27 | Yet most Dissenters did avail themselves of the relief afforded by the Declaration , and some eighty addresses of thanks were presented by various Nonconforming ministers and churches ; addresses even came in from the Quakers , who had refused to have anything to do with Charles 's Indulgence of 1672 . |
| 28 | He was a black version of the Maggot , but this man appeared to have none of the Maggot 's casual bonhomie . |
| 29 | And if she had heard nothing of the gossip about his private life before she accepted him , certain ladies he had discarded , both married and single , took care that she overheard quite a lot now . |
| 30 | If I asked a question of him then he 'd answer seriously , but if I floated a question and waited to see which of the students would pick it up I could guarantee that it would never be Holly . |