Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But in the early stages of his reign , as he sought to establish himself in quarrels with some of his more powerful vassals , Philip relied heavily upon aid from Henry II and his sons , from the family which he was to do so much to tear apart . |
| 3 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 6 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 7 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 10 | On Jan. 30 a draft-dodger died in hospital from a gunshot wound sustained the previous day when paratroopers tried to detain him in Vilnius . |
| 11 | The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition . |
| 12 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 13 | Roman bent to kiss her in greeting . |
| 14 | While the other patients crowded outside and Miss Sowerby tried to keep them in order , Alec motioned to the father to carry the boy into the ‘ ops ’ theatre and lay him down on his back on the operating table so that we could make a more detailed examination . |
| 15 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 16 | Now the first time they tried to change them in May they lost the vote , the women , to increase it from three to four . |
| 17 | Seventy-one tickets were sold to outsiders and ‘ the children seemed to enjoy themselves in spite of the heavy rain ’ . |
| 18 | Mr. Docherty came to see me in April , desperately concerned because he was homeless and had insufficient money with which to feed himself . |
| 19 | So funnily enough , the girl that I made friends with when I was a tracer , Penny , erm she came to see me in land army uniform you see , and I said , ’ Right , if I ca n't go in the forces , I 'll join the land army ’ , so I said ’ alright ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Father Laverty came to see me in hospital two days after the birth and had the nerve to look at my beautiful baby and ask me to put her up for adoption . ’ |
| 21 | I seemed to meet everyone in doorways that evening . |
| 22 | After Hocazade 's appointment to the kazaskerlik some years later , his father and brothers came to visit him in Edirne . |
| 23 | I was hoping that Jane would type my application , but when she came to visit me in Cambridge , she had her arm in plaster , having broken it . |
| 24 | We seemed to wrap ourselves in coil after coil of finely spun logic , to raise our pedestal upon a mountain of phrases and formulas and to be unresponsive to the altered mood of those whose opinions we sought to change . |
| 25 | For twelve days her subconscious mind had ‘ seen ’ Sylvia calmly and confidently entering the cupboard under the stairs with no signs of panic ; so when , on the thirteenth day , she came to do it in reality there was still no need for anxiety to manifest itself . |
| 26 | ‘ They came to keep us in parley , while you assault us . ’ |
| 27 | I was still on the shores of the same great sea and yet had been transported into quite another world , a place on the edge of a China which seemed to have nothing in common with those islanders so forgotten and so far away . |
| 28 | They were soft slippers , decorated with amethyst for wearing on thick carpets and Hari found herself envying the girl who seemed to have everything in life she could possibly want . |
| 29 | They seemed to have everything in command at Pickie on Saturday , but let the BLI come storming back over the last few ends to win on three of the four rinks . |
| 30 | Yeah , people could just switch off and then it Apple Macintosh erm I think with the Gillette decision was part of the Gillette seemed to reposition themselves in advertising |