Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 2 | ‘ Where was all that kindness , courtesy , and respect when you tried to seduce me last night ? ’ she demanded , glaring at him . |
| 3 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 4 | HENRY WHARTON plans to take the short route to victory at Leeds Town Hall tonight when he defends his Commonwealth super-middleweight title against Australian Rod Carr , the man he beat to win it last year . |
| 5 | The chief priests promised to give him thirty pieces of silver which , according to the Old Testament , was the price of a slave . |
| 6 | The driver of a passenger lorry stopped to give me some bread and carrots . |
| 7 | He tried to phone you last night , the number you gave him , but there was something wrong with the line- ’ |
| 8 | I tried to contact you this afternoon but was unable to get through . |
| 9 | He commiserated with Blair over his failure with certain seeds and promised to send him rare plants . |
| 10 | I tried to call you this week-end . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to call you this morning , ’ she said , ‘ but you 'd already left . ’ |
| 12 | I phoned to invite you this morning , Guido , but of course you were n't there . ’ |
| 13 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 14 | I tried to get it last night . |
| 15 | He promised to return it that evening . |
| 16 | I tried to telephone her this morning at the flat but there was no reply . |
| 17 | ‘ I tried to telephone you this morning — ’ he said . |
| 18 | Beaten to death : A 45-year-old married man was beaten to death in Cardiff by a gang of teenage vandals after he tried to stop them damaging traffic bollards . |
| 19 | Charlton boss Lennie Lawrence made a mental note of the raw youngster and tried to sign him two seasons later . |
| 20 | The following day , Dr John Greg of the Medical Research Council tried to tell us that contact with small quantities of dioxins was harmless when he stated in The Independent that 5,000 ppt is a safe level for bleached paper products . |
| 21 | Feeling desperate and willing to try anything , Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring . |
| 22 | For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children . |
| 23 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 24 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 25 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 26 | One of them came to see me last night when I got back from Paris . |
| 27 | The new owner , Mr. Bolsover , came to see me last week , and I 'm afraid he may not let us go on using the barn . |
| 28 | ‘ But I told you when I came to see you that day . |
| 29 | One morning when I was visiting , she said in a matter-of-fact voice , ‘ Jesus came to visit me last night ! ’ |
| 30 | The weight of Garvey on his narrow , bony shoulders , combined with the close fit of the donkey-head , seemed to cause him some distress , because he suddenly reeled up against a wall and snatched off the head . |