Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 2 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 3 | It sought to steady itself amidst plasma and shellblast … |
| 4 | He failed to provide me with information which I had requested . ’ |
| 5 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 6 | He finally agreed to meet us for lunch at the Mayflower Hotel , but nothing happened between them . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes I was in the depths of despair , but the other inmates helped to carry me through prison . ‘ |
| 8 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 9 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 10 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 11 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 12 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 13 | Jesus , it was awful , and the worst thing about it was , when we arrived the baby was still warm , so we tried to revive it with mouth to mouth . |
| 14 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 15 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 16 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 17 | When they tried to set it by setting and him out |
| 18 | Julia 's pain seemed to have left her , and she lay seeming to drift in and out of sleep or unconsciousness , Anne could never be sure which , as she sat beside her , wiping her face , or tried to feed her with beef tea from a feeding cup . |
| 19 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 20 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 21 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 22 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 23 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 24 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 25 | She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said . |
| 26 | It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice . |
| 27 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 28 | He tried to do it at home and that was |
| 29 | Each time Thomas or Carlo tried to draw her into conversation , the words dried on her lips . |
| 30 | She once tried to draw herself at school ‘ when I was obsessed with the dark circles under my eyes . |