Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Spencer said : ‘ Nichol was sexually attracted to Mrs Chandler and probably tried to engage her in conversation . |
| 5 | He discovered the girl 's name was Stella and tried to engage her in gossip . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She tried to imagine them in bed together , and found that the thought made her feel physically ill . |
| 8 | Giles Hawick suddenly looked tired and McLeish felt for him , as he promised to keep him in touch with their investigations . |
| 9 | Roman bent to kiss her in greeting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He could feel his thoughts beginning to stampede and furiously tried to hold them in check . |
| 12 | Seventy-one tickets were sold to outsiders and ‘ the children seemed to enjoy themselves in spite of the heavy rain ’ . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ They came to keep us in parley , while you assault us . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 23 | Without legal connections and with little money , he judged that progress would be easier in the provinces and went to Manchester , where he built up a mainly civil practice until Sir David Napley , Jeremy Thorpe 's solicitor , happened to see him in action . |
| 24 | ‘ We were a bit shocked when the fire brigade arrived to cover it in foam . ’ |
| 25 | Literary critics began to see themselves in part as cultural historians responding to new processes advanced for the understanding of culture by anthropologists , themselves using interdisciplinary methods to describe cultural phenomena . |
| 26 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 27 | Rebecca , more unusually , was an LBT — a Loud Blowsy Tart , normally an evening job guaranteed to embarrass you in front of your wife and friends at a night out at the theatre or similar . |
| 28 | As the jet continued its descent they began to muffle themselves in fur against the subzero temperature on the snow- and ice-covered ground . |
| 29 | Seeing General Piran ahead , he decided to try her in practice chukkas tomorrow . |
| 30 | In the meantime , the wartime Lancasters would be replaced , as a stopgap measure , by the unpressurized Lincolns , which would be large enough to carry atomic bombs , if the Government decided to manufacture them in spite of US objections . |