Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying . |
| 2 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 3 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 4 | As Burn tried to tend him the plane exploded . |
| 5 | He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him . |
| 6 | But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do . |
| 7 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 8 | He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could . |
| 9 | Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage . |
| 10 | He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long . |
| 11 | She 'd found her wallet of credit cards and flourished it under his nose , every fibre of her being poised to defy him if he tried to deny her the right to pay . |
| 12 | But as she bent to give her the bowl , she lowered her voice , and whispered in Rosa 's ear , ‘ Be careful , you 're not a child any more , you must n't forget that . |
| 13 | Genoa boasted a powerful ancient landed nobility whose surplus wealth helped to give it the capital for its commercial enterprises ; but it also needed to import food and raw materials from elsewhere , and enjoyed a powerful economic motive for becoming a centre of commerce . |
| 14 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 15 | The ship 's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived . |
| 16 | I tried to give her the kiss of life . |
| 17 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 18 | The influence of the ‘ parent ’ is very strong — parents tried to teach you the concepts of life . |
| 19 | She trembled to think what the Trunchbull would do to her if she did that . |
| 20 | The sleeping patient 's eyes were bandaged , just in case she tried to anticipate what the surgeon would do next . |
| 21 | And I think they tried to drug me the night before I rode Shine On at York . ’ |
| 22 | No , however much she tried to dismiss what the astrologer had said , the words kept ringing in her ears until she thought she would scream . |
| 23 | I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college . |
| 24 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 25 | ‘ I came to see what the Romans were doing , ’ I explained . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 27 | Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was . |
| 28 | When wicked women called Charlottes came to tempt them the hermits cast off all their clothes and rolled naked in the patch of nettles behind the pigsty . |
| 29 | Mr Doblin claimed that no-one at the hotel seemed to know what the cost of a telephone call should be . |
| 30 | I followed Ward 's lead as he seemed to know what the dishes were . |