Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that if either the Conservatives or Labour sought to go it alone as a minority Government they risked an economic crisis and rising interest rates . |
| 2 | It was released in space on Oct. 19 to begin a six-year 2,500-million-mile voyage to study the planet Jupiter , on a gravitationally assisted trajectory planned to swing it once past the planet Venus and twice around the Earth . |
| 3 | However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break . |
| 4 | Mrs Ford said primly , ‘ I never got to know them well in their child-bearing years . ’ |
| 5 | I tried to kill myself twice in the space of ten days , |
| 6 | She tried to see him dispassionately as a grey-haired solicitor rather too well endowed with easy charm ; indeed , she saw him thus , but she also saw him otherwise , and could not help herself . |
| 7 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 8 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 9 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |
| 10 | He tried to tear himself away from them , but they seemed to draw him in , seeming to darken as if they were wells that were dug deep beyond the limit of the sun 's rays . |
| 11 | He tried to wipe them away on the sleeve of the plaid shirt , but it was no good . |
| 12 | Snow piled against it , threatening to destroy it , but this helped to protect it eventually as the snow wall hardened and compacted . |
| 13 | Staff members tried to keep them away from the soft-hearted President , consigning them to the Vice-president not because Bush was more callous , North explained , but because it was Reagan who had to make the policy decisions . |
| 14 | He then ordered her back to the living room where he tried to rape her twice without success . |
| 15 | Annunziata agreed that Anthony was unlikely to waste time going out to dinner with the others even if he did return in time and promised to cook something quickly for him if he appeared wanting a meal . |
| 16 | I pulled him away and tried to get him upstairs in case he was traumatized for life , but he kicked me in the balls . |
| 17 | Oddly the cottage was fully booked when we tried to take it again at Easter . |
| 18 | Billie hurled herself at them , tried to push them away from Adam , but the storm-trooper with the bucket hit her across the head with it , sent her sprawling backwards across the room . |
| 19 | She got into the flat-bottomed boat and tried to push it away from the bank but the pole stuck in the mud and the boat was too heavy for her to move . |
| 20 | She tried to rip herself away from him then , but his arms were like bands of iron around her . |
| 21 | One such moment was Thursday night , when a mini-cab firm quoted me the price of a fare home , and the driver ( after taking a circuitous route around London ) tried to charge me well over the odds . |
| 22 | Without thinking , she plunged into the mob , caught hold of the leather-worker and tried to drag him away from his assailants . |
| 23 | SEXY singer Anita Dels had to be rescued by security guards after fans tried to drag her offstage during a packed gig . |
| 24 | I got mad , because they were so greedy , and tried to shove them away from the chair . |
| 25 | ‘ She tried to emulate you right from the start . |
| 26 | Well being as he tried to squash me twice behind the back door . |
| 27 | Koresh zeroed in on this and tried to bring it closer to where we are to make it more real so it was uppermost in the minds of all his followers . |
| 28 | Elliott told to go it alone in injury row |
| 29 | Gradually , however , Joe came to see me less as an interloper and increasingly as a friend who happened to share both his home and his mother with him . |
| 30 | Peter first came to see me halfway through the golfing season . |