Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst .
2 After work the same evening , my husband and I walked all over the golf course and were eventually rewarded by spotting the dog in the distance , although we failed to coax her towards us .
3 But he was clearly relieved when I agreed to accept it at his hands .
4 ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd .
5 WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished .
6 She went to sleep , and woke to growl , ‘ Me least , ’ and he put a bath towel round her and tried to carry her into his bed-sitting room , but he was too frail to do it and she had to wake up again to walk by herself .
7 She caught sight of the children and , in a sudden paroxysm of words , tried to admonish them in her own language interspersed with Arabic , while announcing breakfast to me in English .
8 I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside .
9 He tried to pull her to him .
10 She saw a small coffee shop on the other side of the lane and , taking Dana 's arm , tried to pull her with her .
11 And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her .
12 She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell .
13 I bent down and turned him until I had my hands under his arms , his back towards me , and I floated him along in the water to the steps and there strained to pull him up them and out onto the grass .
14 I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique .
15 He pulled the duvet off the bed and tried to wrap it round her , but she reacted violently , as if he was trying to suffocate her .
16 His hair had grown ; he tried to comb it with his fingers .
17 As he journeyed home in the early-morning gloom , he tried to fix it in his mind with words .
18 I gave it to Mrs Barrymore , and she promised to give it to him at once . ’
19 tried to put them at our at the cost of our of the work for quite a while .
20 I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room .
21 The Copts will say we tried to put it on him and the Moslems will say we let him off . ’
22 It did n't happen often , but when it did , we tried to put it from our minds — to remember only what we were trying to do for our country . "
23 When he tried to put it in my back passage , I said no .
24 They tried to give us to our ancient enemies in 1912 , 1974 , 1985 and now we 've had the ‘ Brooke initiative ’ which was another attempt by Westminster to be rid of us .
25 She tried to give it to me
26 If " they " tried to kiss you with your mouth open you must keep your teeth tight shut .
27 He tried to warm her with his body but he was so cold himself he did n't know if it would work .
28 He tried to warm them with his hands .
29 She tried to clear them from her mind , but was broody over breakfast .
30 ‘ Then when she caught me with a cigarette she went really mad and tried to grab it off me . ’
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