Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I hear that Miss Potts asked to see you about next year 's work , " said Miss Haines . |
| 2 | In 1336 , as on earlier occasions , a tax of 20s a sack had been agreed by an assembly of merchants , and in 1338 the merchants agreed to increase it to 40s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 5 | I hit one six and then instead of just trying to hit a single from the next I tried to hit it for four and was out . |
| 6 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 7 | She tried to see herself through this man 's eyes , to relive the last couple of hours from his point of view . |
| 8 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 9 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 10 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 11 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 12 | As we tried to calm ourselves with sweet coffee , a Swiss traveller appeared . |
| 13 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 14 | Cherry tried to free himself from 20-stone Flashman , who tumbled to the ground , taking with him a handful of material from Cherry 's ripped coat . |
| 15 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 19 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 22 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 23 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 24 | Sure enough , the rescued man later tried to murder somebody with that very hand . |
| 25 | and it was on full power and I tried to save it after this thing came off . |
| 26 | More specifically , on the issue of cultural hierarchies and class relations the Situationists tried to distance themselves from bourgeois notions of progress and their equivalence in the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period . |
| 27 | Scandals involving leading members helped to discredit it by 1925 . |
| 28 | Jesus , if you knew how hard we tried to get her off that damned powder . ’ |
| 29 | Donna tried to convince herself of that as she walked slowly around the ruins of Mountpelier Lodge . |
| 30 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |