Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 3 | ‘ I expected to see you at the ball last night , Sharpe ! ’ |
| 4 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 5 | It seemed to be the only real thing in the universe ; the temple , the city , the motorspeeder , all of these were illusions devised to distract her from the important issues , the real business of life . |
| 6 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 7 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 8 | His ex-wife Margaret claims he tried to kill her at the family home in Brockhampton . |
| 9 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 10 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 11 | He rose to conduct me round the TOM complex . |
| 12 | ‘ You are naughty , wicked and bad , ’ she cried as she pretended to hit him over the head . |
| 13 | As he passed Garry he pretended to punch him in the arm . |
| 14 | Italian club Torino tried to tempt him to the land of loads of lira , but Nigel 's mother put the block on that move . |
| 15 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 16 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 17 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 18 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 19 | He extended a hand , tried to shake hers through the gap in the door . |
| 20 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 21 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 22 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 23 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 24 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 25 | Our men tried to shoot him in the water , but it was dark , there was no moon — and we lost him . |
| 26 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
| 27 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 28 | A SPURNED lover disguised himself to kidnap his ex-girlfriend then tried to stab her in the neck with a syringe , a court heard yesterday . |
| 29 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 30 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |