Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 2 | The 39-nation Conference on Disarmament meeting in Geneva on Sept. 3 adopted a draft treaty banning the use , production or stock-piling of chemical weapons , and agreed to pass it on for approval by the UN General Assembly . |
| 3 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
| 4 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
| 5 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 6 | I went over to Sheridan to ask him to be quiet and he grabbed my wrist and tried to pull me on to his lap , and I overbalanced and fell and hit the table hard where he was sitting , and I caught the cloth somehow and pulled it with me and everything on it landed on the floor . |
| 7 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |
| 8 | King Edward bent to pick it up amid suggestive laughter , declaring ‘ shame on him who thinks evil of it ’ , and prophesying that he would make it the most sought-after badge of honour in Britain . |
| 9 | I tried to clean it out with a trolley . |
| 10 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 11 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
| 12 | When he did n't reply she felt something bad approaching and tried to ward it off with an apology . |
| 13 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 14 | Gently we tried to talk him round to looking at things in another way . |
| 15 | Bob tried to talk him out of it when they were on their own , at the sandwich bar in the Gates . |
| 16 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 17 | I had rehearsed all the routine for the South America job , then I just got a bit panicky ; the captain tried to talk me back into it . |
| 18 | Najma 's family tried to talk her out of a singing career as not quite suitable for a good Muslim girl , but she persevered and in 1984 won Britain 's Asian song contest on her first public appearance . |
| 19 | No we tried to talk her out of . |
| 20 | I tried to talk you out of it but nothing worked . |
| 21 | She tried to cover it up with a laugh . |
| 22 | All this happened in the twinkling of an eye and just as quickly I extricated myself from the upholstered prison , scraped up my hat and tried to bash it back into shape as I hobbled to retrieve a far-flung shoe . |
| 23 | In an attempt to remove the influence of the janissaries from Istanbul , where they naturally formed a powerful opposition to his reforms , Mahmud tried to buy them off by offering them a virtually free hand in garrisoning the remote provinces of the empire . |
| 24 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 25 | ‘ I tried to play it down in the report . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 27 | He stopped to put it back on again , clamping it on his head and holding it there . |
| 28 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 29 | She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard . |
| 30 | Er we always tried to put it over at er Everest product prices . |