Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 32 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 33 | Gen Morillon , after talks in Belgrade , said : ‘ President Milosevic promised to help me in the implementation of every request I have made , that is the immediate ceasefire . ’ |
| 34 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 35 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 36 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 37 | He insinuated his right hand under her arm and tried to ease her towards the Bayswater Road . |
| 38 | She left her home last night as her owner tried to weigh her in the garden . |
| 39 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 40 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 41 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 42 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 43 | In the final minutes of the spacecraft 's descent , Soviet ground controllers tried to guide it towards the ocean but lacked the necessary fuel . |
| 44 | ‘ Somebody tried to phone her at the flat . |
| 45 | I tried to phone you during the week and mum said where is my little son ? |
| 46 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 47 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 48 | But I 've got a lot of time for Tom Clarke , he 's a nice man and it would be absolutely disgusting if anyone tried to dump him at the moment . ’ |
| 49 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 50 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 51 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 52 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 53 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 54 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 55 | Margaret Jones claims her husband tried to murder her at the family home in Brockhampton , by pumping exhaust fumes from the garage into her bedroom . |
| 56 | When the first Vietnamese arrived in 1975 after the fall of Saigon , the federal government tried to spread them around the country . |
| 57 | She and Keith 's distraught fiancee Ann Sole desperately tried to save him with the kiss of life and heart massage . |
| 58 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
| 59 | I hit violently at the door , I tried to force it with the nail , and managed to hurt my hand . |
| 60 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |