Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had heard how hospitals messed people about with all that unnecessary waiting and medical jargon , and if anyone tried to treat them like illiterate peasants there 'd be a letter in the post to some M.P . |
| 2 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 3 | She says a man tried to abduct her in similar circumstances around the time of the murder . |
| 4 | The open-top Dreadnoughts and Toastracks had been the mainstay of the Promenade route for many years , and Manager Luff proposed to replace them with modern equivalents . |
| 5 | I tried to help them in other ways , too . |
| 6 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 7 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 8 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 9 | At my weekend surgery three pensioners came to see me in considerable distress because of the difficulty that they faced in paying their water and electricity bills and other bills from private utilities following the large price increases . |
| 10 | But after a while he augmented the phone calls with occasional visits , and as the summer wore on came to see her with increasing regularity , eventually as often as his professional commitments allowed . |
| 11 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 12 | Basic salary is based on the expatriate 's home salary with a number of allowances added to adjust it to local living conditions . |
| 13 | She was Smallfry 's mam , but she never , ever came to visit them at Old Ashfield . |
| 14 | It seems that she had fallen in love with him but she " did n't know where I was at all " with him ; he would be most affectionate towards her and then , for no apparent reason , seemed to avoid her for protracted periods . |
| 15 | How was it then that all these ordinary people seemed to manage it with effortless ease ? |
| 16 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
| 17 | Gaidar 's speech was followed by calls for his resignation , but on Sept. 23 the Supreme Soviet refused to endorse a no confidence motion , encouraged to reject it by Supreme Soviet Chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov , usually a critic of the government , who asked deputies not to make such a " strategic mistake " . |
| 18 | I said without thinking , ‘ I wonder what you were all like when you were young ? ’ , realising as I spoke how young I was myself as four people in early middle age turned to regard me with varying degrees of indignation and amusement . |
| 19 | Two days later , Clare 's mind was unexpectedly diverted from her personal problems — no job , no man — when the CND office telephoned to ask her for voluntary evening help : they were organizing another protest after a nuclear accident . |
| 20 | Gabriel took over John Coffin 's neglected cup and began to drink it in anxious little sips . |
| 21 | The farmer tapped out his pipe on the half door and began to fill it with black shag from a battered tin . |
| 22 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 23 | Suddenly I became a target for this lunatic , and he began to shower me with machine-gun bullets . |
| 24 | She began to shower him with desperate gifts . |
| 25 | He ignored the partially melted ice , and began to shaft her with unbounded enthusiasm . |
| 26 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 27 | Without any preamble , except the customary offer of a cup of tea which I declined , the Inspector began to take me in painstaking detail through my account of my discovery of Froggy 's body . |
| 28 | Then , abruptly , without a word , he turned away , picked up a piece of copy , and began to correct it with short , violent strokes and swirls of his pen . |
| 29 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 30 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |