Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the more we got to know about it the more I had to laugh . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to talk to you the night before last , but — ’ |
| 3 | Jones tried to put before him the possible alternative courses of action . |
| 4 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 5 | Er and I think perhaps teaching I do n't know whether it 's different today but they seemed to instil in us the love of , of poetry and the , the love of literature and that sort of thing . |
| 6 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 7 | My mother soon began to drum into me the notion that I was different because of my eyesight , and therefore that I should not expect too much out of life . |
| 8 | ‘ I began to yearn for you the moment you left , ’ he told her in return . |
| 9 | Almost immediately he began to share with us the intense enthusiasm of his Christian faith . |
| 10 | The deputy headmaster arrived on the scene and the headmaster proceeded to explain to him the cause of the fuss : |
| 11 | After his return he was sent for by the Mamluk sultan who wished to learn from him the state of affairs in Rum ; and he entered Cairo on either 4 Safar 823/19 February 1420 ( Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi ) or Tuesday 4 Rabi'I 823/Tuesday 19 March 1420 ( al-Makrizi . |
| 12 | In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear . |
| 13 | Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night . |
| 14 | I wanted to lay on him the burden of our fractured present . |