Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If people stopped to look at the borders alongside the house he would be perfectly charming ; if they did n't he would n't bother them . |
| 32 | He promised to help with the preparations for the party ! ’ |
| 33 | The Blackshirt stewards moved to deal with the interrupters . |
| 34 | The UK nevertheless intended to submit its own proposed amendments in January 1991 ( on the basis of Major 's June proposals for a parallel " hard ecu " — see p. 37521 ) , prompting European Commission President Jacques Delors to warn on Dec. 15 of a political crisis if the UK tried to stall over the issues of a single currency and a central bank . |
| 35 | Determinedly Isabel tried to shut off the thoughts of Dameta , of home and family . |
| 36 | Taipei itself looked beautiful from the high balcony on which she and Florian stood , by night a glittering bowl from which the hum and roar of its mind-numbing traffic rose to compete with the sounds of the party going on in the large room behind them . |
| 37 | Austria tried to mediate between the belligerents , but her efforts came to nothing . |
| 38 | She thought of all the things she did n't like to do , the sewing and painting and practising , and then she tried to think of the days at home she had enjoyed most and unbidden , pictures came to her mind of the farm and the sheep and the days on the hill with her father . |
| 39 | Then she sat at her bureau and put her hands to her flaming cheeks and tried to think about the hens , the sea , the possibility of buying a pig , something , anything , rather than the likelihood of not being painted by Michael Swinton . |
| 40 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 41 | She came from a large family , and it must be supposed that her mother or one of her sisters helped to care for the children while she was at work . |
| 42 | Instead Rosa waited in church before the eleven o'clock Mass , in the side chapel of the Madonna of the Spasm , and tried to pray through the minutes that seemed to haul themselves onwards through time as if anvils were strapped to their feet . |
| 43 | I tried to explain about the break-ins , the gangs , the violence but he was adamant . |
| 44 | Nathan was a simpleton : fat-faced and cretinous , with a drooly mouth and a silly smile , and when he tried to join in the hymns he made a terrible braying noise because he was turning into a man much too early . |
| 45 | In the immediate post-war period down to the mid-1950s there were endless external difficulties as the economy tried to recover from the strains of the war ; balance-of-payments crises of a severe kind in 1949 , 1951 , and 1955 , often accompanied by pressure on sterling , were endemic . |
| 46 | Then we tried to cut across the fields at the bottom and that was a mistake , they were all ploughed up . |
| 47 | The Royal Navy moved to cut off the raiders , but fog allowed them to slip past . |
| 48 | But he could not resist holding the bird up to his desk lamp , so that the light ran across the surface and seemed to flow over the edges in crimson flame . |
| 49 | One day Leo came to see to the plants in the conservatory . |
| 50 | The children and Mother walked behind the cart along a dark , dirty road , which seemed to go across the fields . |
| 51 | Somewhere lay the sound of singing — I say lay for the voice seemed to float on the waters as gently as a slight mist . |
| 52 | Seconds later she shoulder-charged the door , and found herself in an eerie moonlit room where she could distinguish nothing , except the deafening howls which seemed to reverberate off the walls . |
| 53 | For the Germans in Prague , gloating over the latest humilation for the East Berlin leadership on the eve of its birthday party seemed to compensate for the conditions of near-vagrancy . |
| 54 | Ninety nine per cent of our work was of this nature but the other one per cent of excitement seemed to compensate for the disappointments . |
| 55 | The voice always seemed to come from the shadows or from somewhere just aside from where he was looking ; and usually the words did n't make any sense , and they passed through his mind so quickly that they 'd gone before he could reach for them . |
| 56 | We hardly said anything , we seemed to communicate through the chessmen , there was something very symbolic about my winning . |
| 57 | One of the products that seemed to slip through the cracks when Eastman Kodak Co 's Interactive Systems Corp , Naperville , Illinois , sold its packaged Unix division off to Sunsoft Inc was Norton Utilities for Unix . |
| 58 | Lightning seemed to reflect from the windows in his eyes , and to Gilbert it seemed as if Rohmer was possessed of some inner , terrifying power . |
| 59 | And that nose which seemed to sharpen with the years made her look predatory … |
| 60 | Only when Marcella had relaxed sufficiently to sit back in her chair and release her tight hold on the dog did he risk intervention : ‘ We came to talk about the Garlands . ’ |